The Senate Majority Leader Kipchumba Murkomen and his minority counterpart James Orengo were engaged in a spat over Orengo's remarks on the possibility of a referendum.
Orengo, speaking at Parliament Buildings on Monday, January 6, suggested that a referendum should be conducted in the first half of 2020.
"If we are to have a referendum, and my view is that we should, it should be conducted no later than the end of June-July this year," Orengo spoke.
Murkomen, however, would not have anything to do with Orengo's brazen suggestions.
He dismissed the ODM senator's calls for a plebiscite, adding that despite the opposition's repeated calls for a referendum in 2019, it did not materialise.
"There will be no referendum this year. I have heard some politicians say that this is the year of the referendum, but they never told Kenyans that they said last year would be the year of the referendum but they never held it," he stated.
Murkomen insisted that the country, at the moment, did not need constitutional amendments to solve its problems, but rather that the current leadership needed to execute the already existing laws.
Orengo, however, maintained that if the president gazetted the extension of the BBI Task Force's term, a referendum would be a tenable option in the near future.
Kisii Senator Sam Ongeri also weighed in in defence of Senator Orengo's sentiments.
"It (BBI) is not for creating positions for anybody. I think any constitutional order takes into account the resilience of the nation, how the nation wants to live with itself, particularly the citizenry," he stated.
