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    "id": 401823,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/401823/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Omondi",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Godliver Nanjira Omondi",
        "slug": "godliver-nanjira-omondi"
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    "content": "Thank you, Madam Temporary Speaker, for giving me a chance to contribute to this very important Motion. For sure I want to say that this is a very important Motion although there are many challenges that we need to consider as we debate it. I will contribute to this Motion considering the fact that it is specific people who should be given firearms. I feel sorry whenever I see watchmen standing at different gates. I remember the issue of Westgate Mall where the guards at the door were shot while lying down. These are people who protect buildings worth billions and yet they have no weapons. Their lives are endangered most of the time. This category of people should be considered for guns if this Motion becomes law. I also support this Motion because criminals, after knowing that Kenyan citizens do not have weapons to fight back, have made us their targets. Criminals have taken that opportunity to kill, steal and to kidnap at their own will. This is something we should think about even though it has its own disadvantages. We should allow everybody who is qualified to have a firearm to own it. However, there are certain people that I would support the Motion if they were put into consideration. The law should allow families that have been victims of crime due to high insecurity to have guns so that they protect themselves. These people are genuinely in need of firearms. Once given the firearms, they would protect themselves. This Motion should also cater for such families. I also want to contribute by saying that once vetting is done; because from the village level it is easy to identify the behavior of different people, it will be easy to tell whether people who have been given firearms will use them properly or not. At times, you will find that we have people who are short tempered or the “short- wired” people whose tempers are not predictable. Village elders know such people and these people, during vetting, cannot be given a go-ahead to own firearms. With those few remarks, I support the amendment to the Motion."
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