{"id":80992,"date":"2018-08-16T07:19:35","date_gmt":"2018-08-16T04:19:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.com\/ke\/?p=80992"},"modified":"2018-08-16T07:22:34","modified_gmt":"2018-08-16T04:22:34","slug":"rutos-worst-nightmare-becomes-reality-as-kenya-civil-aviation-authority-confirms-weston-hotel-is-built-on-its-land","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/ke\/rutos-worst-nightmare-becomes-reality-as-kenya-civil-aviation-authority-confirms-weston-hotel-is-built-on-its-land\/","title":{"rendered":"Ruto&#8217;s\u00a0worst nightmare becomes reality as\u00a0Kenya Civil Aviation Authority confirms\u00a0Weston Hotel is built on its land"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What started as a joke has turned into something really serious!\u00a0Economist David Ndii on Monday August 13th called on president Uhuru Kenyatta to ensure Weston Hotel which is linked to deputy president William Ruto is demolished to get back grabbed public land.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/UKenyatta?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@Ukenyatta<\/a> this is public land. One more friend you need to lose. And once you are done with him, turn yourself in. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/fcWbKiZ50C\">https:\/\/t.co\/fcWbKiZ50C<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/5ApCSFjxEv\">pic.twitter.com\/5ApCSFjxEv<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; David Ndii (@DavidNdii) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DavidNdii\/status\/1028946070091563009?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 13, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Well, it turns out David Ndii is right. Apparently\u00a0the plot occupied by deputy president William Ruto&#8217;s Weston Hotel is a grabbed land that belongs to\u00a0Kenya Civil Aviation Authority (KCAA).<\/p>\n<h5>Trying our best to repossess our land<\/h5>\n<p>In an interview with the Star, KCAA\u00a0executive director Gilbert Kibe publicly stated that the plot on Langata Road that Weston Hotel sits on\u00a0is among hundreds of parcels that it wants to reclaim.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;All I can tell you is that we are trying our best to repossess our land. We are in court with several cases and the rest is with National Land Commission. Yes, Weston Hotel is part of the land but the case is with NLC,&#8221;\u00a0Gilbert Kibe told the Star.<\/p>\n<p>Nairobi governor Mike Sonko on Tuesday August 14th assured Kenyans that all buildings including Weston Hotel that are built on grabbed public land and riparian land will all be demolished.<\/p>\n<p>Also read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/ke\/dp-rutos-weston-hotel-will-not-be-spared-in-the-ongoing-demolition-exercise-sonko-assures-kenyans\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u201cDP Ruto\u2019s Weston Hotel will not be spared in the ongoing demolition exercise\u201d Sonko assures Kenyans<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What started as a joke has turned into something really serious!\u00a0Economist David Ndii on Monday August 13th called on president Uhuru Kenyatta to ensure Weston Hotel which is linked to deputy president William Ruto is demolished to get back grabbed public land. @Ukenyatta this is public land. One more friend you need to lose. And [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2834,"featured_media":80993,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[310],"tags":[1214],"class_list":["post-80992","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-weston-hotel-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/ke\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80992","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/ke\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/ke\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/ke\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2834"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/ke\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80992"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/ke\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80992\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":81005,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/ke\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80992\/revisions\/81005"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/ke\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/80993"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/ke\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/ke\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/ke\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}