Nairobi, May 26 -- President William Ruto has named ex-MP Basil Criticos, the man who sold him 2,500 acres of land in Taita Taveta County, as chairperson of the Kenya Trade Network Agency Board for three years.

The appointment is contained in the latest Kenya Gazette.

In July 2022, the former Taveta MP said then Deputy President paid "market price" to acquire a portion of his huge Taveta land.

Mr Criticos, in an interview with Saturday Nation, said he sold the 2,536 acres in the Mata area of Taveta to the DP in 2017. This was the first time the ex-legislator was speaking publicly about the controversial land deal. He said the DP was financed by Agriculture Finance Corporation (AFC), a parastatal under the Agriculture ministry, to buy t...