JUDGMENT OF THE COURT
[1] Kisumu County Public Service Board (County Board), and the Governor Kisumu County Professor Peter Nyong’o (Governor) are the appellants before us. They are dissatisfied with the judgment of the Employment and Labour Relations Court (Maureen Onyango, J.) delivered against them on 7th November 2017. The judgment was the culmination of a petition lodged against the County Board and the Governor, by Samwel Okuro and seven (7) others (hereinafter referred to as the respondents).
[2] The respondents were all chief officers of the County Government of Kisumu, employed through respective individual contracts for a fixed term of five (5) years. The respondents petitioned the High Court seeking declaratory orders that the appellants had through letters dated 26th September, 2017 addressed to each respondent prematurely terminated the employment of each respondent in breach of Articles 27(1)(2)&(3), 28, 35, 41, 47 and 50 of the Constitution. The respondents sought orders …