The management of Weston Hotel based in Nairobi has denied reports that have been doing the rounds from Wednesday evening that the hotel was scheduled to be demolished.

In a statement shared on their social media pages on Thursday, Weston Hotel - which is owned by Deputy President William Ruto – was running smoothly without any interruptions.

Panic hit Ruto’s camp on Wednesday after reports went round on social media that the hotel located on the busy Lang’ata Road was being brought down by two excavators seen at the site.

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In a post on his Twitter and Facebook pages on Wednesday night, Kapseret MP Oscar Sudi alleged that plans were in top gear to demolish the hotel and shared photos of an excavator.

“The Deep State are indeed cornered. They have today decided to express their fury by demolishing Weston Hotel," Sudi's post read in part.

Lang’ata MP Nixon Korir also shared a similar post also joined by other bloggers from Ruto’s camp who dared the government to demolish the hotel and face unspecified consequences.

As photos circulated on social media of the bulldozers parked outside the hotel, panic dominated Ruto’s camp amid a heightened presence of security officers to bar such a move.

In July, the DP through his lawyers lodged a fresh legal application seeking to bar the demolition of the hotel and repossession of the public land found to have been irregularly acquired.

Ahmednassir Abdullahi, the lawyer who was representing Weston Hotel, had sought to push the case to next year to allow the defence team to file an appeal.

Weston sits on a 0.773 hectare land opposite Wilson Airport in Nairobi and the National Land Commission (NLC) had accused the Kenya Civil Aviation Authority (KCAA) of defying its orders conclude talks on the land after which the DP would compensate the authority.

NLC had asked KCAA to allow Ruto to compensate it at market rates but KCAA insisted it wants back its land back arguing that such a move would encourage encroachment of public land.