Kenyan intelligence officials are to be questioned by the country's MPs about whether or not they had advance warning of the deadly Westgate Shopping Mall attack.
Kenyans have become increasingly frustrated over their government's unwillingness to share information about the attack.
Almost no details have been released about what happened after the first hours of the siege on September 21.
Interior Minister Joseph Ole Lenku has declined to give any information about the suspected attackers, saying: "We do not discuss intelligence matters in public."
Nine suspects are now in custody following the gun and grenade assault, which is believed to have been carried out by Islamist militants from the al Qaeda-linked Somali group al Shabaab.
Mr Lenku also insisted no gunmen escaped in the chaotic scenes that followed the attack, despite some witnesses claiming one of the attackers joined the shoppers as they were fleeing.
A memorial service was held outside the shopping centre Kenyan police assisted by US, Israeli and European experts are still poring over the partially wrecked building.
Investigators have also identified a car used by the gunmen and found in it an "assortment of illegal weapons".
The Red Cross has said 59 people remain missing, though the Kenyan government has said no one was unaccounted for.
Six British nationals were among the victims when gunmen stormed the upmarket Westgate shopping centre.
At least 50 Kenyans as well as victims from France, China, Ghana, Canada, Australia, South Africa, Peru and the Netherlands were also killed.
A candlelit vigil was held for the dead at a makeshift memorial near the shopping centre just before sunset on Sunday.
It had been thought that a number of attackers and hostages had been trapped under rubble when the roof the mall collapsed, but the Kenyan government has said it believes no hostages were left in the mall "unless forensic evidence shows otherwise".
What caused the collapse has not been revealed but a government official admitted on Saturday it happened as a result of action by Kenyan forces.
Shoppers fled as the gunmen began their rampage The raid, claimed by al Shabaab in retaliation for Kenyan military operations in Somalia, ended after a four-day siege when security forces went in to flush out the gunmen.
Five of the attackers were killed.
Meanwhile, the East African country has asked the American government to remove a warning to US citizens, advising them to take extra care when travelling to Kenya, calling it "unnecessary" and "unfriendly".
Mr Lenku said he strongly objected to the advisory that urged Americans to "evaluate their personal security situation in light of continuing and recently heightened threats from terrorism" there.
He said: "We believe issuing the travel advisory is counter-productive in the fight against global terrorism.
"We request the United States, as a friend of Kenya, to lift the travel advisory."
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