Nairobi — A parliamentary team is looking into ways of disbanding the Truth Justice and Reconciliation Commission.

MPs in the House Committee on Justice and Legal Affairs have decided that the controversy-ridden commission be dissolved.

The team headed by Mandera Central MP Abdikadir Mohamed is awaiting advice from Parliament's legal department on the financial implications of disbanding the TJRC and how to go about it.

"The committee has resolved to disband the truth team and has requested the legal department to advise it on the best method to disband it," the MPs said in a report before Parliament.

Mr Mohamed's committee is also expected to summon Justice minister Mutula Kilonzo. The Bethuel Kiplagat-led truth commission has been dogged by controversy, which saw Ms Betty Murungi resign as its vice-chair. She later resigned from the team altogether.

Mr Kiplagat has shrugged off calls for him to resign, and dared his critics to prove accusations levelled against him.

The team's commissioners further piled pressure on him to quit by asking Chief Justice Evan Gicheru to set up a tribunal to investigate him. However, the tribunal has not been set up.

Vice-President Kalonzo Musyoka termed the happenings at the truth team as "nothing short of a farce". The commission, he said, should have accomplished much of its mandate by now.

International law lecturer Kindiki Kithure says Mr Kiplagat should not have been appointed to the commission in the first place.

"Although the allegations have not been proven in court, the nature of the commission is such that once such allegations are made, the logical thing is to step down," he says.

The chairman is accused of obtaining land irregularly in the city's Kileleshwa estate. Dr Kithure also says that the Ouko Report, especially the 2,000-paged Troon Report, recommends that Mr Kiplagat be investigated.