{"id":183644,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/183644/?format=json","text_counter":188,"type":"speech","speaker_name":"Mr. Mwaita","speaker_title":"","speaker":{"id":100,"legal_name":"Sammy Sila Komen Mwaita","slug":"sammy-mwaita"},"content":"Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I am happy the Assistant Minister has given a very comprehensive answer. However, he has deliberately escaped from answering the last part of the Question, on when the Government is going to declare it a noxious weed. Other countries, including neighbouring countries of Sudan and Ethiopia, declared it a noxious weed in 1997. When is the Kenya Government going to declare it a noxious weed? This weed attracts international funding when it comes to its control."}