Two state agencies have given the Kenyan media clashing accounts of the relationship that they had with the stowaway whose body was found in South London.
The accounts given by the Kenya Airports Authority (KAA) and Kenya Civil Aviation Authority (KCAA) do not tally.
In a statement to the media, KAA strongly denied that Paul Manyasi, who is said to be the stowaway, was a cleaner at the airport as had been claimed by a Sky News investigative piece.
It said that the name Manyasi does not appear anywhere in the airport's biometric register.
KCAA, on the other hand, says that the stowaway was most likely working at the airport.
KCAA Director-General Gilbert Kibe, in an interview with the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), said that the stowaway had access to the airside which is granted to workers.
He went on to say that thorough checks are done before the plane is allowed to take to the skies.
"They do check every part of the airplane, including the undercarriage, the wheels, the brakes, the tyre condition, the wheel well that is above there. They inspect everything. So when those checks were being done, it is not likely that person was there, otherwise he would have been seen,” Gilbert Kibe said.