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Kenya truth commission chief Kiplagat has stepped aside. He announced it yesterday evening. One more Kenyan officials steps aside facing serious allegations…

Bethuel Kiplagat still claims he is innocent. He has denied allegations of being complicit in rights abuses committed under ex-President Daniel arap Moi.

He said yesterday the justice would put doubts about his credibility to rest. He wants to allow a tribunal, set up last week to investigate his past conduct, to carry out its work.

"I see the tribunal as an opportunity to finally put any doubts about my credibility to rest once and for all," Mr Kiplagat said in his statement.

Three days ago, Kenya's chief justice appointed a tribunal to investigate Mr Kiplagat's conduct following a petition that was sent by his fellow commissioners.

The Truth, Justice and Reconciliation Commission was set up after the power-sharing deal that ended post-poll violence in 2008 in an effort address some of the root causes of the crisis. Some 1,300 people died in the clashes after the December 2007 elections.

The commission is intended to probe human rights abuses since independence in 1963.

The International Criminal Court in The Hague is to separately prosecute the main perpetrators behind the post-poll violence in 2008.

Earlier this year, Mr Kiplagat resisted demands for his resignation by civil rights groups. Many prominent Africans asked for him to resign and tried to help mediate an end to the crisis, including South African Archbishop Desmond Tutu.

According to Bethuel Kiplagat, the Truth, Justice and Reconciliation Commission has made "significant progress" and is on track for hearings to start in August 2011.