RULING OF THE COURT
1. On 7th November, 2017, the Employment and Labour Relations Court (Onyango,J,)sitting in Kisumu delivered a judgment in which it ordered that the letters dated 24th August, and 26th September, 2017, issued by the applicants to the respondents sending the respondents on compulsory leave and giving notice of termination of the respondents’ employment respectively, be removed into the Court for the purposes of quashing.
2. Being aggrieved by that judgment the applicants filed a notice of appeal and on the same day lodged a notice of motion dated 21st November, 2017 under certificate of urgency seeking orders under Order Rule 5(2)(b) of the Court of Appeal Rules for stay of extension of the judgment delivered on 7th November, 2017 and the decree arising therefrom.
3. The notice of motion was anchored on grounds stated on the motion and an affidavit sworn by Dr. Olango Onudi, the then acting County Secretary of the 1st applicant. In effect, the applicants are apprehensiv…