{"id":439528,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/439528/?format=json","text_counter":347,"type":"speech","speaker_name":"Hon. (Prof.) Nyikal","speaker_title":"","speaker":{"id":434,"legal_name":"James Nyikal","slug":"james-nyikal"},"content":"Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I wish to propose an amendment to the Report on the recommendations which are in Chapter 4, specifically Recommendation No.8 which reads:- “The Government should commission an inter-ministerial and multi-stakeholder taskforce to address the legal barriers regarding the classification of khat derivatives as psychotropic substances.” Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I wish to amend this by deletion of the words “barrier” and “surrounding” and replacing that after the word “legal” with “and scientific basis for”. It will, therefore, read as follows:- “That the Government should commission an inter-ministerial and multi-stakeholder taskforce to address the legal and scientific basis for classification of"}