City lawyer, Ahmednasir Abdullahi, has defended the deputy president William Ruto over the instruction the National Land Commission (NLC) gave him. They said that the Deputy President should pay for the parcel of land on which Weston Hotel was built.
The senior counsel, also commonly referred to as the Grand Mullah, held that the DP was an innocent purchaser who acquired the property legally.
Ahmednasir Abdullahi
His argument was that Ruto was not the first Kenyan to unknowingly buy a land that was acquired by someone else under questionable circumstances. He said that he was being targeted just because he was a public figure.
“Ruto is not the first person to buy property that was taken by someone. Everybody in this country has a title deed that has question marks,” he said.
The city lawyer’s position, however, appeared to contradict that of Ruto himself who had admitted the Weston Hotel land belonged to the public and that he was duped into buying it. He went on to say the person who sold the property to him must compensate him for the cost he incurred to acquire it.