Political analyst Prof Edward Kisiangani has questioned the sudden change of heart among a section of politicians who have been in support of the Building Bridges Initiative (BBI).
Since its release and official launch on Wednesday, a number of the politicians, majority of them MPs, have stressed on the report to be implemented through a referendum.
Prof Kisiang'ani now finds this questionable and is suspecting something in the new push, given that they would be more comfortable passing the suggestions in parliament.
He says that he expected the politicians, from the Kieleweke faction of the ruling Jubilee Party and the Orange Democratic Movement (ODM) to take advantage of the shortcut availed to them.
"I don't know what to make of this noise from ODM and some Kiekeweke MPs about the BBI. This is their report. Now they say they don't want Parliament where they belong to play any part yet most of them proposed a parliamentary system in which MPs would have had excess power," he tweeted on Thursday.
Kisiang'ani pointed out that the group could be feeling shortchanged by the BBI taskforce, by failing to include their demands, and no longer want it passed quickly through the parliament.
"Just wondering aloud! Have some people in the Kiekeweke team suddenly gotten the gut feeling that their own BBI team has short-changed them and undermined the initial high expectations set?" he added.
Already, some of ODM politicians who were initially fully behind the push have dropped their support, including Narok Senator Ledama Ole Kina who says it will introduce imperialism.
The senator is against the report's suggestion that the president is handed the power to pick the Prime Minister.
ODM Chair John Mbadi has also called for a review of the document, though the party leader Raila Odinga has since declared full support for the document, terming it a new dawn.
COTU Secretary General Francis Atwoli, while speaking during the BBI report launch at the Bomas of Kenya, suggested that the report be revised to include expansion of the executive.