RULING
INTRODUCTION
[1] The instant application seeks review of a decision of the Court of Appeal, certifying an intended appeal as one raising matters of general public importance.
[2] This matter began in the High Court, with the respondents instituting Judicial Review proceedings, by way of Application No. 232 of 2012. The respondents contended that the applicant had continued unlawfully to hold and exercise the powers vested in the office of the Vice - Chancellor of Kenyatta University, after the expiry of her term in March 2011. They alleged that while so acting, the applicant mismanaged the University, sustaining corruption, tribalism and nepotism. The respondents were, in effect, asking for the appointment of a new Vice-Chancellor.
[3] The respondents contended that the applicant’s occupancy of office was invalid, urging that since the applicant had been appointed after the promulgation of the Constitution in 2010, there should be a letter signed by the President of Kenya, making s…