How Deputy President William Ruto grabbed the Weston hotel land.

Weston Hotel on Langata road, Nairobi

CORD senators James Orengo (Siaya) and Johnstone Muthama (Machakos) have sensationally linked the deputy president William Ruto with the grabbing of the land on which a hotel in which he holds some interests in, stands. The hotel is on land said to have originally belonged to the Kenya Civil Aviation Authority (KCAA) and was grabbed in 2002.

DP William Ruto holds shares in the hotel

 The leaders said the DP had to surrender the land on which the hotel stands, and quit his position as the second-in-command to President Uhuru Kenyatta. Orengo and Muthama told a news conference at Parliament buildings that the piece of land on which the hotel stands had been used as collateral for a Sh450 million loan from a leading commercial bank KCB. The loan, the senators claimed, was in $1.5 million and Sh350 million. The senators claimed the land was grabbed through a series of "questionable transactions". Orengo, who is a former Lands Minister, said the issue of the Weston Hotel land surfaced when he was in Government, but claimed attempts to revoke the title were thwarted by corrupt court judges.

The letter DP Ruto's team ignored

 A letter drafted by Mr. Sammy Kyungu then PS in the ministry of Transport and Communications in the year 2003 to Mr. Francis Baya then PS ministry of land had warned of the eminent grabbing of the land on which Weston Hotels occupies today, the PS advised that any title issued in the name of the grabbers should be cancelled.