Deputy President William Ruto has linked the court bid to demolish Weston Hotel to his 2022 presidential ambitions.
Weston Hotel has filed another court papers arguing that the suit is a conspiracy between the Kenya Civil Aviation Authority (KCAA) and some politicians to politicize the land deal for cheap political drama.
The Aviation Authority to revoke the title issued in the 1990s, which will eventually lead to the demolition of the five-star hotel.
KCAA is challenging the ruling by the National Land Commission (NLC) which stated that Weston Hotel should retain the land but compensate KCAA at the current market value, drawing opposition from the hotel.
“It is a cheap attempt on the part of the conspirators to malign and scandalize the Deputy President because it is believed he has certain interest and association with the property,” reads submission filed by Weston lawyer Ahmednasir Abdullahi.
“The suit is being prosecuted to damage him politically. It is precisely because of that political scheme that the petitioner (KCAA) had been forced to file this petition instead of filing an appeal from the decision of the 1st respondent (NLC).”
Lawyer Ahmednasir on behalf of his client reckoned that KCAA was under instructions to undertake a political hatchet job on the Deputy President and the case is a “wanton act of political skullduggery”.
The hotel wants the dismissal of a suit filed by where KCAA wants to repossess the land where the facility sits. According to the hotel, KCAA ought to have challenged the decision by the NLC instead of filing a new suit.
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Ahmednasir notes that the law provides a procedure for an appeal before the Environment and Land Court, therefore, KCAA should have appealed against NLC instead of filing a fresh suit.
The authority wants the decision by NLC directing the hotel’s management to compensate for the property quashed.
Weston on the other hand has insisted that it was an innocent buyer and the case was filed with ill motives, especially after NLC made a finding that the title was acquired legally.
In 2019, the court stopped the implementation of NLC’s decision.
