Majority Leader of the National Assembly, Aden Duale, proposed a motion to kick the media out of parliament, on Wednesday.
The visibly angered legislator urged the speaker to pass the motion, citing a recent headline run by the Daily Nation as evidence enough that the media had been compromised.
"We demand an apology in the next 7 days, failure to which the litigation arm of parliament will go ahead and sue the Nation for spreading fake news," he asserted.
The Garissa Township MP echoed his colleague, Simba Arati (Dagoretti North), who had earlier questioned the headlines ran by the mainstream media.
The Daily Nation had claimed that 85 members of parliament were set to spend over Ksh100 million on a trip to the US.
However, Duale maintained that these were purely fabricated figures, geared towards making sales and reeling readers by overly exaggerating it.
On top of demanding an apology, Duale urged the Speaker to pay for an entire page in the local papers, where they'd go ahead and publish the details of the MPs who had gone on a benchmarking trip to the US.
The MP then asked the Speaker of the house to authorize a formal complaint to the Media Council of Kenya, following the rampant publication of "fake news", which he felt wouldn't do as well.
Budalangi MP, Raphael Wanjala, seconded Duale's proposal, adding that the media centre at Parliament be permanently shut down, accusing journalists of focussing on gossip and rumour-mongering.
