RULING OF THE COURT
On 15th October 2014, the County Assembly of Kisumu (the County Assembly) passed a resolution in which it suspended the Kisumu County Assembly Service Board (the Service Board) and thereafter caused the redeployment to other duties of Nelco Masanya Sagwe and Peter Odero Onditi, the interim Clerk and interim Assistant Clerk of the County Assembly respectively. It replaced them with Eliud Owen Ojuok and Nicholas Stephen Okola respectively as acting Clerk and acting Assistant Clerk to the County Assembly.
By its further resolution passed on 21st October 2014, the County Assembly censured and removed from office its Speaker, Anne Atieno Adul, (the Speaker) and replaced her by Gabriel Ochieng whom it appointed as acting Speaker.
Aggrieved by those resolutions, Nelco Masanya Sagwe and Peter Odero Anditi filed a petition in the High Court at Kisumu which has not been heard. The Service Board and the Speaker also filed a joint petition in the High Court at Kisumu in which the…