Ruto has been embroiled in a land grabbing saga involving his mysterious acquisition of Weston hotel land pitted against public counter-accusations with a number of state corporations in Kenya surrounding the original ownership of the land. According to the standard, a state agency was duped into surrendering land on which Weston hotel was built. In 2001 KCAA, which originally occupied the land, was given alternative pieces of land belonging to another state agency, the metorological department. KCAA did not occupy the alternative piece of land upon which Ruto's Weston hotel was built upon. According to the state agency KCAA, a powerful cartel working in the lands ministry was involved in a conspiracy to relinquish the same piece of land with a number of lands ministry officers involved in the conspiracy. In January 2019 it emerged that according to another state agency National lands commission, Ruto owed and needed to be compelled to pay the people of kenya for the land 0.773 acres opposite wilson airport upon which the Weston hotel was built. In February 2019 Ruto publicly admitted the Weston land had been acquired illegally by the original owners who sold him the land, and that he had no knowledge of matter.