RULING
[1] On the 23rd January 2015, the High Court, Odunga J., dismissed a petition that was filed by Prof Paul Musili Wambua (hereinafter referred to as the applicant). The said petition was filed after the Association of Human Resource Practitioners of Kenya (2nd respondent) complained against the applicant for allegedly holding two positions in public office, as Chairman of the Betting Control and Licensing Board and as the Associate Dean of the School of law, Parklands Campus, University of Nairobi. Perhaps in response to those complaints, or to forestall any precipitate action by the respondents, who were insisting the applicant was in breach of the provisions of the Constitution and the Betting Lotteries and Gaming Act, the applicant filed a constitutional petition in the High Court.
[2] The applicant was seeking on his own behalf and other lectures in public universities for declaratory orders that lecturers in public universities are not State Officers, and as such were not pre…