A senate committee has scheduled a public hearings on Friday to receive submissions on the proposal to extend the presidential term and that of other elected leaders from five to seven years.
The senate invited submission of written memoranda on the Constitution of Kenya (Amendment) Bill, 2024 (Senate Bills No 46 of 2024), to clerk Jeremiah Nyegenye by Friday, October 25.
The public will give views on the Bill sponsored by Nandi Senator Samson Cherargei at the Kenyatta International Convention Centre, amphitheatre.
The Justice, Legal Affairs and Human Rights committee indicated on Thursday that it had so far received over 120,000 written submissions on the Bill by late evening.
The Bill has been undergoing public participation since October before the Senate Committee on Justice and Legal Affairs.
The legislative proposal also seeks to create the office of the Prime Minister who shall be appointed by the President from among the MPs from the party or a coalition of majority parties in Parliament, serving at the pleasure of the President.
The Prime Minister shall be the head of government, responsible for the day-to-day administration of the government and shall be accountable to Parliament.
The ruling UDA has, however, clarified that it has nothing to do with the Bill.
"The party therefore dissociates itself from the repugnant and backward Bill and calls any of its ranks and file who leads, supports or is, in any manner whatsoever, involved with it, to order. The Bill is incompatible with our policy and aspirations," the party stated in a strongly-worded statement.
"This juvenile political experimentation and delinquent affront to our constitutional values must now be crushed to a halt," the party stressed.
UDA secretary general, Hassan Omar, described the Bill as a "cynical, profoundly misguided and self-serving" initiative that threatens the democratic principles hard-fought for by the Kenyan people.
Leader of majority in the National Assembly, Kimani Ichung'wah, said the Bill is dead on arrival and will not see the light of day once it lands in the House should Senate approve it.
"That Cherargei legislative proposal on term limits is dead on arrival, period. He should save his own time, that of other Senators and tax payers money," Ichung'wah said.