TAIB A. TAIB V. MINISTER FOR LOCAL GOVERNMENT

REPUBLIC OF KENYA

IN THE COURT OF APPEAL OF KENYA PEAL AT NAIROBI

Civil Appeal 107 of 2006

TAIB A. TAIB .............................................................APPELLANT

AND

THE MINISTER FOR LOCAL GOVERNMENT ....... 1^ST RESPONDENT

THE PERMANENT SECRETARY,

MINISTRY OF LOCAL GOVERNMENT ................. 2^ND RESPONDENT

THE ATTORNEY GENERAL ............................... 3^RD RESPONDENT

MUNICIPAL COUNCIL OF MOMBASA ............... 4^TH RESPONDENT

COUNCILLOR SHARIFF SHEKUE ..................... 5^TH RESPONDENT

(An appeal from a Ruling and an Order derived therefrom of the High Court of Kenya

mbasa (Sergon, J) dated 28^th April 2006

In

H. C. Misc. Civil Application No. 158 of 2006 – original Nairobi H.C. Misc. Application 94 of 2006)

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JUDGMENT OF OMOLO, J.A

I must start this judgment by stating that I personally found the issues raised in this appeal to be of very absorbing interest as those issues appear to me to be largely of law and founded on the current and topical question…