JUDGMENT
The promulgation on 27th August 2010 of the Constitution of Kenya ushered in unprecedented and far-reaching constitutional and governance reforms, including the establishment of a devolved system of government comprised of the National and 47 County Governments of which the 1st appellant is listed in the First Schedule to the Constitution as County No. 20, whose county government is comprised of a county assembly and a county executive in accordance with Article 176(1) of the Constitution.
The transition from the hitherto central to the devolved system of government owe their emergent institutional and legislative frameworks to the Constitution and statute law, which were suitably designed to implement the 2010 Constitution and give effect to the emergent constitutional order of governance characterized by devolution of power and decentralization of services to the county level and other devolved units of service delivery.
Chapter 11 of the Constitution makes provision for the s…