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    "content": "relative of Morans in my house. The youth that we are talking about, after enjoying a glass of traditional liquor or commercial beer in Kitengela, will not keep their firearms secure, because they will be in discos, where the youth go. The licensing officer has to protect the rest of the society. I do not know whether you have ever talked to somebody who owns a gun. You can actually be jailed for being found not to have kept your firearm safely. I know of a case of my best friend and cousin, an agricultural scientist by the name Mathews Shitsetse. He was licensed and given a firearm, but then the wife, when they disagreed on domestic issues, hid the firearm away. My cousin was arrested and arraigned before court for allowing the wife to take away the gun from him. You can see how difficult it is for a married man. How about a youth with a girlfriend? A youth will even give the girlfriend the gun to show her that he is a deadly man and so on. Madam Temporary Speaker, I wish to add that as we refer to the American debate, there is also a raging debate in this country about our pastors and bishops requesting that they be allowed to carry firearms. If the contributions that I am following on social media are true, Kenyans are reluctant to give bishops and pastors, disciplined as they are, firearms. So, if we can deny people of such high integrity, like pastors and bishops, firearms, how about the country being told that the Senate has resolved that our youth, irrespective of their status, so long as they are 30 years and above, be allowed to carry firearms? Madam Temporary Speaker, I would like to conclude this, as I support Sen. Muthama, that there is currently a lot of confusion in our counties as far as security is concerned. We now have the following officers in charge of security in counties. We have the County Commissioner, who is supposed to be in charge of security in the county. The Administration Police have also posted there an administration police officer in the rank of an Assistant Commissioner to be in charge of security. The Regular Police and the Criminal Investigation Department have also posted officers there. All these people have no chain of command. None of them can command the others and summon them to a meeting. Currently, in fact, our problem is not the absence of those firearms, but lack of a security command structure in the counties. As a result, criminals and unscrupulous people are taking advantage of the same. Madam Temporary Speaker, I beg to second the amendment for those reasons."
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