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NLC hands Ruto’s Weston soft landing

Weston Hotel along Nairobi's Langata Road. (Elvis Ogina, Nairobi).

The story of how the National Land Commission (NLC) gave a hotel establishment associated with Deputy President William Ruto a rare privilege of paying up for developing an illegally acquired public land, can now be told.

A January 22 NLC report obtained by Saturday Standard slapping Weston Hotel on the wrist for illegally taking up 0.773 hectare of land belonging to the Kenya Civil Aviation Authority (KCAA) places the blame on past officials at Lands ministry.

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