Nairobi, April 8 -- Governors secured a major win on Wednesday after the High Court issued conservatory orders barring the police from enforcing a Senate directive to arrest or summon them.

The court certified a case filed by lawyer Charles Mugane and Ashton Ngugi as urgent and directed them to serve the petition on the Inspector-General of Police Douglas Kanja, the Senate and National Assembly as well as the 47 county governors and the Council of Governors.

"..a conservatory order be and is hereby issued restraining the 3rd and 4th Respondents, jointly and severally, and whether by themselves directly or through their officers, employees, servants, agents, related-entities, and/or agencies operating with them under a multi-agency frame...