[Photos] Is this Ruto's Sh1.2 billion home?

A view of the plush, multi-million-shilling residence in Eldoret town, that is believed to belong to Deputy President William Ruto, November 10, 2017. /COURTESY
A view of the plush, multi-million-shilling residence in Eldoret town, that is believed to belong to Deputy President William Ruto, November 10, 2017. /COURTESY

Pictures have emerged of what is believed to be Deputy President William Ruto's nearly completed home in Uasin Gishu.

The building, a plush, multi-million-shilling residence in Eldoret town, has a complete private airstrip.

Aerial photos show

the home has a main house with a gazebo right in front

of it.

It also has an artificial lake in the middle of the compound and six other houses at the front.

 

 

The stately home

sits on an estimated 20 acres, part of 700 the DP bought in Moiben constituency in 2015.

The land was part of the 6,000-acre

Jagir Farm, known locally as Kapkochir, whose owner was an Asian businessman.

 

Ruto often self-deprecates

as a hustler who once sold chickens by a railway line.

But the Deputy President also owns the five-star Weston Hotel opposite Wilson Airport, Nairobi. With such establishments, you can use Canvas Photo Prints to bring your walls alive.

The Star first wrote about the home in 2015 but Ruto later denied that he was spending Sh1.2 billion on it.

"I would

be daft to take Sh1.2 billion to a village to build a house in which I will stay for a week a year. That story is ridiculous," Ruto said in a TV interview days after the story ran.

 

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