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Dock Workers Union general secretary Sulman Owour, treasurer Kibibi Omery and chairman Amin Iloti address the media in Mombasa on April 12, 2026. [File, Standard]
The interim office bearers of the giant Dock Workers Union (DWU), led by acting general secretary Sulman Owour, have suffered a major blow after the court rejected their bid to oppose the elections board on grounds that it was not properly constituted.
Owour, who earlier this year replaced long-serving general secretary Simon Sang in an acting capacity, had moved to the Employment and Labour Relations Court to oppose the union elections board, claiming it had only four members instead of nine, but Justice Ocharo Kebira threw out the petition on Monday.
“Having weighed all the foregoing, the court is satisfied that the applicants have failed to meet the threshold, whether under order 42 rule 6 of the civil procedure rules as applied through rule 21 of the Employment and Labour Relations Court (Procedure Rules, 2024) or under the wider equitable principles discussed above, for the grant of stay of execution, conservatory orders or injunctive relief pending the hearing and determination of the intended appeal,” he ruled.
