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    "id": 1122103,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1122103/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. (Eng.) Hargura",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Godana Hargura",
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    "content": "omission. We have had many cases of illegal firearms in the hands of members of the public within the community. It is the responsibility of the Government to disarm illegal firearm holders, but it has not done that. In the early 1990s, it was felt that the way to counter the presence of illegal firearms and improving security, especially within pastoralist communities, was to arm civilians under the Kenya Police Reservists (KPR) arrangement. The pastoralist communities could not be covered by the current system of policing, where a police station somewhere covers a particular area. The police saw it fit to have the KPR arrangement. To a great extent, it has been useful because those firearms are important when it comes to deterring and countering illegal firearm holders. When the recent issues started in Marsabit County in 2018, we proposed disarmament of the illegal firearm holders and enhancement of the National Police Reservists (NPR), as it is now known in the new Constitution and the National Police Act. However, what happened is contrary to what we said. The illegal firearm holders were left with their arms and the NPRs were disarmed, giving the illegal firearm holders a free hand to commit crimes wherever they wanted. It went on so much such that even the county headquarters was almost burnt down. It reached a time when that fight came into town and the Government is not doing anything. Last Thursday, within one kilometer or so of the county police headquarters, a"
}