SAD NEWS😥:Gilbert Muteshi, the man that William Ruto grabbed land from, has passed on⚡
In 2014, Ruto was ordered to pay 5m to a PEV victim, one Adrian Gilbert Muteshi for illegally occupying his land. He claimed Ruto hatched a plan to grab his 100 acre in Uasin Gishu during PEV when he fled the farm..🐾
Mr Muteshi won a 5m compensation from Ruto.Reacting to the judgment, Mr Muteshi said he was not satisfied with the Sh5 million compensation. “It’s not a lot of money,” he said. “If you harvest maize for five years from somebody’s land, obviously there is much more value to that.”
He said he accepted the judge’s decision and was glad that the land had reverted to him.
Lady Justice Rose Ougo cleared Ms Yator, noting that she was consistent in her evidence that she had never had any dealings with the Deputy President and that her signatures were forged in the land sale deal.
The judge concluded that evidence showed that Mr Muteshi owned the land and that he still had the title deed.
She also concluded that the land was irregularly and fraudulently subdivided and sold to Mr Ruto. She did not hold the Deputy President liable in the irregular dealings with the land.
“I can only attribute the irregular acts to Hosea Ruto (Mr Ruto’s witness) as honourable Ruto chose not to testify,” Justice Ougo said.
The businessman was the only witness the Deputy President presented to court in his defence.
During the trial, Mr Hosea Ruto noted that he acted on behalf of the Deputy President and organised a meeting between him and the alleged agents of the seller — Mr Bethuel Kipsang and Mr Peter Kosgei.
The two men, posing as agents of Ms Yator and her husband, Daudi Kiptugen, met with Mr Ruto, then Agriculture minister, in his office and struck a deal to sell the land to him, the court heard.
But Ms Yator told the court her signatures were forged to facilitate the sub-division and transfer the property to Mr Ruto
