Kapsaret MP Oscar Sudi and two foreigners were on Wednesday morning involved in yet another drama at the Wilson Airport after officials insisted on scanning their luggage.
They were briefly detained at the Airport accompanied by controversial Tanzanian politician and former minister for Natural Resources Lazarus Nyalandu and a British businessman, Michael Spencer.
Spencer is a politician and chairman of the Intercapital Private Group Ltd.
A passenger manifest indicates trio left Eldoret for Nairobi on Wednesday at 10am aboard a Pilatus PC-12 private jet tail number 5Y SRI belonging to Sirai Air but operated by East African Air Charters Limited.
The plane had flown from Nairobi to Eldoret on Tuesday afternoon and arrived at the airport at about 4pm.
It was not immediately established where the visitors were coming from, their kind of engagement and people they had met.
However, it has emerged that Sudi refused to follow airport guidelines insisting that his entourage passes through the VIP lounge instead of using the domestic arrival’s section used by ordinary passengers.
Officials at the airport stood their ground but Sudi persisted leading to a standoff.
Sudi finally agreed to go through the normal arrival and screening procedures after realising he was running late for Parliament.
Wednesday’s incident is the second after Sudi was in August last year engaged in an almost similar fracas at the same airport when Turkish businessman Harun Aydin was arrested and deported over money-laundering links and illegal movement into and out of Kenya.
