RULING OF THE COURT
By an application dated 6th December, 2017 the applicants moved this Court under rule 5(2) (b) of this Court’s Rules seeking an order of injunction to restrain the respondents from attaching their properties. The intended attachment followed a ruling dated 29th November, 2017 rendered by the High Court (Hon. Lady Justice L. Njuguna) dismissing their application for stay of execution of the orders issued by Mr. Orenge SRM in CMCC No. 3062 of 2014 in which the learned magistrate had allowed the respondents to attach the applicants’ properties for contempt of court following their brazen failure to honour the terms of his court order. The magistrate’s court had granted a permanent injunction restraining the applicants from blocking or barricading the respondents’ access to the property known as L.R No. 7785/35 through a public road known as Ruaka Road within Runda Estate in Nairobi. Further orders, in the nature of a mandatory injunction, were also issued in the respon…