The Kenyan government has launched a new four-month taskforce to reform the Public Trustee Department and address long-standing delays in the succession process for deceased relatives' estates.

• The taskforce will conduct a comprehensive audit, clear case backlogs, and recommend legal and institutional reforms.
• Key people involved include Attorney General Dorcas Oduor and taskforce chair Linda Murila.
• The department, one of Kenya's oldest public institutions, has been plagued by bureaucratic bottlenecks and eroded public trust, contrary to its original intention as an autonomous body.