Kenyan Finance Minister Amos Kimunya has offered to step down during an investigation into the controversial sale of a luxury Nairobi hotel.
"I have requested the president to allow me to step aside to facilitate this inquiry," Mr Kimunya said.
The controversy over the sale of the Grand Regency hotel has split Kenya's coalition cabinet.
The power-sharing government was formed to end weeks of violence that followed Kenya's presidential election.
Mr Kimunya is a close ally of President Mwai Kibaki.
He has denied reports that the hotel was sold to a local company with Libyan interests for a third of its value.
"As I stated before, Kenya cabinet cash shortfall ...
Healing hands ... my conscience is very clear, and I maintain the position that I am open to an independent inquiry into the sale of the Grand Regency Hotel," Mr Kimnuya said at a press conference.
A government inquiry led by the attorney general last week recommended that Mr Kimunya be suspended.
Parliament also passed a vote of no-confidence in him.
(BBC)
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