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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 this year. [File, Standard]
The court has rejected a bid by the Dock Workers Union’s acting general secretary, Sulman Owour, and his interim team to block the elections board, clearing the way for union polls to proceed.
Earlier this year, Owour replaced long-serving general secretary Simon Sang in an acting capacity. He later moved to the Employment and Labour Relations Court to challenge the union elections board, arguing that it had four members instead of nine. Justice Ocharo Kebira dismissed 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 21of 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.
