A Kenyan
security guard has sued her employer after she was allegedly dismissed for
insisting that a government minister undergoes a security check at the
country's main
airport while trying to catch a domestic flight, the Standard
newspaper reports.
Daisy
Cherogony is reported to have insisted that Education Minister Fred Matiang'i
queue and undergo security checks like other passengers in an incident on 6
April.
Her
employer, Kenya's Airport Authority (KAA), dismissed her on 11 May on grounds
of gross misconduct for mistreating and humiliating the minister.
In her court
documents filed at the Employment and Labour Relations Court, Ms Cherogony says
she was accused of making a mistake that does not exist and was victimised and
discriminated against by KAA, the Standard reports.
She says
that according to the airport security manual, government ministers do not
qualify for any preferential treatment unless they have special passes.
Ms Cherogony
said the minister, accompanied by an airport police inspector and his security
team, had tried to force their way instead of waiting in line like other
passengers:
He
(Matiang'i) did not want to follow the queue but wanted special treatment
despite the fact that it was raining and people were complaining."
She now
wants the court to declare her termination unfair and to award her $23,000
(£17,000) for wrongful dismissal.
She accuses
KAA of frustrating her efforts to claim her job benefits.
The airport
authority body has 15 days to respond to the suit.
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