{"id":290797,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/290797/?format=json","text_counter":312,"type":"speech","speaker_name":"Dr. Otichilo","speaker_title":"","speaker":{"id":131,"legal_name":"Wilber Ottichilo Khasilwa","slug":"wilber-ottichilo"},"content":"asked the Minister for Environment and Mineral Resources:- (a) whether he could inform the House the cause of the drying up of Lake Kanyaboli in Siaya County, one of the largest ox-bow lakes in Africa; (b) whether he could also inform the House the endemic fish species and other aquatic life that are threatened by the drying up of the lake; and, (c) what urgent measures he is taking to arrest the situation and avoid extinction of endemic aquatic life in the lake."}