Omtatah wants KQ stopped from sending trainee pilots abroad
By Nancy Gitonga, February 26, 2020
Human rights activist Okiya Omtatah on Tuesday moved to court seeking to stop Kenya Airways (KQ) from sending pilot trainees outside the country.
He wants the national carrier to be stopped from sending candidates to South Africa as advertised in December 2019.
In the advert the KQ was inviting applicants for trainee pilot positions under its Ab Initio Pilot Trainee Programme.
“I also want the court to certify this matter as urgent and be granted a hearing on priority basis,” he told Milimani constitutional court.
He says that KQ has solicited and received public money to keep the company afloat.
“By soliciting and receiving public funds, KQ has become a public law with regard to the necessary safeguard of the said public funds,including by being bound by Kenya’s public procurement laws”he says in his petition.