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Al Jazeera’s Mohammed Adow, reporting from Nairobi, said hundreds of protesters were also amassing in the capital’s Freedom square and were planning to advance on the electoral commission building.<\/p>\n
Kenya is to hold general elections in 15 months and the main opposition leaders have threatened to boycott them if the\u00a0IEBC\u00a0is not reformed.<\/p>\n
On Friday, Kenyatta reiterated his call for CORD to end the protests, saying parliament’s legal committee was ready to start hearing public views on how to reform the electoral authority.<\/p>\n
“We want dialogue like yesterday but it must be held within the confines of the law. Dialogue is not about going to the streets or meeting in tea rooms,” Kenyatta’s office quoted him saying.<\/p>\n
CORD wants the electoral commission scrapped. Its electronic vote results transmission system collapsed during the 2013 election that brought President Uhuru Kenyatta to power, beating Odinga, a result disputed by the opposition.<\/p>\n
The next presidential and parliamentary polls in east Africa’s largest economy are not due until August 2017 but politicians are already trying to galvanise supporters.<\/p>\n
But there are fears of a repeat of violence\u00a0that erupted after the 2007 elections. About 1,200 people were killed and 600,000 forced to flee their homes.<\/p>\n
Kenyatta and his deputy, William Ruto, were on opposing sides in 2007 but, in 2013, they united in a coalition.<\/p>\n
They were both charged by the Geneva-based International Criminal Court (ICC) with fomenting the post-election violence.<\/p>\n
Both denied the charges, which were later dropped by the ICC.<\/p>\n
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