REPUBLIC OF KENYA IN THE ENVIRONMENT AND LAND COURT AT MERU ELC PETITION NO. 22 OF 2019 IN THE MATTER OF ARTICLE 22 AND ARTICLE 258 (1) & (2) (C) OF THE CONSTITUTION OF KENYA 2010 IN THE MATTER OF ALLEGED THREAT OF VIOLATION OF ARTICLE 2, 3 AND 10 OF THE CONSTITUTION OF KENYA 2010 IN THE MATTER OF ALLEGED THREAT TO AND CONTRAVENTION OF ARTICLES 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25 ©, 28, 35, 40, 43, 47, 50, 51, 63 OF THE CONSTITUION OF KENYA 2010 IN THE MATTER OF THE COMMUNITY LAND ACT 2016 IN THE MATTER OF THE URBAN AREAS AND CITIES (AMENDMENT ACT NO. 30 OF 2019) IN THE MATTER OF THE URBAN AREAS AND CITIES ACT 2011 BETWEEN ALEXANDER BARILLE ABDUBAH ..................................1ST PETITIONER GIRRO KATELO YATTAN ...................................................2 ND PETITIONER ELEMA GALGALO JILLO ..................................................3 RD PETITIONER ABDUB KOFO MAMO ..........................................................4 TH PETITIONER GUYO BUTTO ADANO .........................................................5 TH PETITIONER TURA GODANA MAMO .......................................................6 TH PETITIONER KUNI ELLE .............................................................................7 TH PETITIONER ABDI HASSAN ........................................................................8 TH PETITIONER BONAYA KATELO..................................................................9 TH PETITIONER HAJI ABDO............................................................................10 TH PETITIONER EDEN ABDO...........................................................................11 TH PETITIONER MAHD DALACHE.................................................................12 TH PETITIONER LERIA DOKHLE...................................................................13 TH PETITIONER JOHN E’TALA.......................................................................14 TH PETITIONER ZEINABU FECH....................................................................15 TH PETITIONER
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JAMES LEKARGI................................................................ 16 TH PETITIONER KALALI ZAKARIA...............................................................17 TH PETITIONER LEKUTI GOBANAI...............................................................18 TH PETITIONER VERSUS THE GOVERNOR, MARSABIT COUNTY GOVERNMENT ....................................................................1 ST RESPONDENT MARSABIT COUNTY GOVERNMENT............................2ND RESPONDENT THE COUNTY ASSEMBLY OF MARSABIT ...................3RD RESPONDENT RULING 1. The application before me is dated 10.9.2019. It is yet to be prosecuted. The applicant however prays that pending the hearing and determination of the said application, the court be pleased to issue the following orders: (i) That the honourable court be pleased to issue a temporary injunction restraining the respondents their employees, servants, agent’s representative and/or any other persons acting under their instructions from publishing and/or gazetting in Kenya Gazette or in any other forum a decision to include Karatina Karare Ward and Shegel and Oranderi as part of the Marsabit Municipality pending the hearing and determination of the application herewith. 2. It is averred that if the temporary orders are not granted, the respondents will proceed to gazette the municipality boundaries yet these are the issues in contention. The application will then amount to nothing. 3. The prayer for temporary injunction has been opposed where it is averred that the parties are not going to be prejudiced in anyway and that no irreparable harm will be suffered. 4. I have weighed all the issues raised herein. The matter is at the infancy stage and the application is yet to be determined. I find that the substratum of the suit may be affected if an order to maintain status quo is not granted. 5. In the circumstances, I allow prayer 2 in the application of 10.9.2019 but I direct that the matter be heard expeditiously. DATED, SIGNED AND DELIVERED IN OPEN COURT AT MERU THIS 2ND DAY OF OCTOBER, 2019 IN THE PRESENCE OF:C/A: Kananu B. Kinyua holding brief for Bayale for the 1st and 2nd respondent Mutegi holding brief for Lesaisor for petitioner HON. LUCY. N. MBUGUA ELC JUDGE
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