DCI reopens Ruto land fraud case nine years after acquittal

Deputy President William Ruto takes a photo with Archbishop Justin Welby, Archbishop of Canterbury and Archbishop Jackson Ole Sapit of Anglican Church of Kenya during a meeting at Harambee House Annex, Nairobi.

The police have reopened investigations into an old case involving Deputy President William Ruto and the controversial sale of land to a State corporation.

Dr Ruto was acquitted in 2011 of fraud charges following the 2001 sale of land to Kenya Pipeline Corporation (KPC) that the State contested was hived off Ngong Forest.