Kenyans online are pushing for human rights activist Boniface Mwangi to organize a protest that will be geared for the demolition of the controversial Weston Hotel owned by the Deputy President.
The conversation was kickstarted with lawyer Soyinka Lempaa asking whether Kenyans were ready to practice the proverbial people power and reclaim public land where the hotel sits!
This comes after Abigael Mbagaya, the vice-chairperson of the National Land Commission stated that the DP had to pay restitution equal to the current value of the land initially owned by the Kenya Civil Aviation Authority.
Indeed, during a BBC interview, the Deputy President admitted that the land where Weston Hotel sits was improperly acquired terming himself as an innocent buyer.
Here are what some netizens had to say about the whole affair:
Now that both National Land Commission and William Ruto admit that Weston is on public land, would I be charged with trespass if I grazed my goats on the pubic land ….or rather if a group of youths from Sugoi… https://t.co/SnTv0qgaUg
— Lempaa Soyinka (@LempaaSuyinka) February 20, 2019
If they don’t demolish Weston Hotel and hand back the land to it’s rightful owners i.e @CAA_Kenya then the war on corruption and impunity will remain to be just words and not action.
Taj Mall owner should also have been told to compensate for building on Road Reserve. https://t.co/iHZ2YM3DYQ
— E K Gitau (@GitauEK) February 20, 2019
How can Weston be there legally when the DP himself said it was on grabbed public land? The DP is not smart at all. If he was, he would have done due diligence on Weston and Muteshi land. He is actually on record denying weston was not his. Conflicted man. Weston will go down
— Resist (@matesobilachuki) February 20, 2019