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    "id": 573367,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/573367/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Dr.) Munyaka",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 86,
        "legal_name": "Victor Kioko Munyaka",
        "slug": "victor-munyaka"
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    "content": "The gist of my Motion is to urge the Government to register and fit all guns with tracking devices. To register a gun is to enter information about that particular firearm in an official book or a system of public records, so that we can have a data-base of all the firearms. This is similar to what Kenya has done in the past by requiring all Kenyans to register their mobile phones. We also register our motor vehicles and parcels of land. This is not a new thing for the Government. Registration is vital so that we can know the manufacturer of a particular firearm, the serial number, the owner, the service history and change of hands of a particular weapon. In this era of technology, we can use digital registers, so that it is not as cumbersome as when we use papers. To track a gun means to monitor the geo-physical location or any change in the geo- physical location of a firearm in real time. The benefit of tracking a gun would be to recover stolen guns. We have many cases where thugs, terrorists and robbers have stolen guns from innocent Kenyans and police officers. The Government has not been able to recover those stolen guns. A good example is in Kapedo where 19 police officers were killed and 19 guns lost. It even took His Excellency the President to give a directive that guns should be surrendered, but we did not have a good method to ensure that the guns were surrendered. If those guns were fitted with a tracking device, then immediately after they were stolen, the Government would have followed them up. During kidnapping incidents, police officers have used the tracking system of mobile phones to save the victims. The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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