Government cites demonstrators’ lawless for this sweeping measure.

Having withdrawn from the re-run presidential election, opposition leader  Raila Odinga calls for daily protests next week to keep up pressure on election officials.

Security Minister Fred Matiangi maintains there is a clear, present and imminent danger of a breach of the peace.

Police have been notified that for the time being, demonstrations won’t be allowed within the central business districts of Kenya’s three largest cities.

Hundreds of opposition supporters have marched in recent weeks, sometimes burning tyres and clashing with police who have used teargas to disperse crowds.

Kenya has a recent history of deadly political violence.

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This follows massive cheating in Kenya’s equivalent of the matric exam.

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Kenya’s education cabinet secretary Fred Matiang’i has asked for a private session to brief  Parliament’s education committee on the extent of cheating in national examinations.

The says the information he is sharing with MPs is too sensitive to public.

Journalists were kicked out before presentation of an explosive report by the directorate of criminal investigations showing how teachers and officials of the Kenya national examinations council infiltrated the system to leak examination papers to candidates.

An MP has described the state of exams in Kenya as all pervasive and rotten to the core.

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