#KIELEWEKE: Wambugu Ngunjiri demands Weston hotel be demolished

Outspoken Nyeri town MP Wambugu Ngunjiri has demanded that a hotel associated with Deputy President William Ruto be brought down for being on public land.

The MP took to his Facebook page to declare that Weston hotel is a symbol of impunity and that leaving it standing even after the National Lands Commission found that it sits on a public land, is wrong.

National Lands Commission had early this month ruled that the hotel is built on a public land that was illegally acquired. It ordered that the DP Ruto pays the government the current market value of the land.

The amount he is asked to pay is over Sh300 million.

The Deputy President had also told the BBC's Stephen Sucker that he bought the land without knowing that it was illegally acquired, but that "he has commenced the process of restituting it."

But the fiery legislator rejected the ruling by the ruling to have Ruto pay up the value of the land to the government, saying it is "unacceptable."

He said that this would be double standards.

"It's [not demolishing the hotel] double standard considering we put down houses put up by other Kenyans in similar arrangements," he said.

"If we do that, then i will insist that we throw out all those cases the state is prosecuting against (primarily) young men & women who are facing charges of handling stolen property simply because they innocently bought a cellphone which had been stolen by someone else," Wambugu said.

Wambugu asserted that "the hotel is on a stolen public land, on a flight path " and that leaving it in business "sends the wrong message that and sets a bad precedent in the fight against impunity."