The Kenya Airports Authority (KAA) has conducted a full-scale emergency drill at the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport (JKIA) to reinforce the facility's security fitness.
In a statement on Wednesday, April 30, KAA said that the exercise mainly aimed at identifying security vulnerabilities within the airport's infrastructure and elevating the airport's staff preparedness and ability to manage the high-risk scenarios that may occur.
According to KAA, the one-hour, 12-minute drill involved the staging of incidents such as explosions, through simulation, within the airport's facilities, such as terminal buildings, and assessed how the airport staff would respond to them.
Since the activity was fully simulated, the authority assured that the exercise did not compromise the airports' operation or security in any way. Kenya Airports Authority headquarters at the JKIA in Nairobi Photo KAA "The simulation exercise, which commenced at 3:08pm, involved a staged sabotage incident at the airport facility using explosives, including a simulated explosion at the terminal building," it stated. "The drill tested the coordination and effectiveness of incident management, emergency response, and business continuity procedures.
