Rift Valley Regional Commissioner Chimwaga Mongo said on Sunday that President Uhuru Kenyatta only promised Dennis Ngaruiya’s family the payment of Dennis’ school fees, not a house.
Mr Mongo claimed that unknown people “sat down and decided” to come up with the idea of a plot as an extension of Mr Kenyatta’s goodwill.
He explained that when Ms Kamau (Ngaruiya’s mother) went to State House, there was no promise to buy a plot and build her a house.
“The only promise President Kenyatta made was for the full payment of Dennis’ school fees. There was no promise to build a house or anything else,” he said.
“The promise of paying school fees is intact … nobody has interfered with it.”
To end the stalemate, Mr Mongo said, the house was handed to a “deserving” person at a ceremony on Sunday.
The commissioner handed over the house to one Mr Macharia Gachie, 58, as Ms Kamau rejected it saying it was substandard.
“We tried in vain to convince Ms Kamau and her son to accept the house so we decided to hand it over to a deserving Kenyan,” he said.
Mr Mongo said the new beneficiary was selected as he has six children, three of whom are physically disabled.
“We had three names from which Mr Gachie’s was picked. We were ordered from above to hand over the house officially and end this stalemate,” he said.