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    "id": 573380,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Chanzu",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Yusuf Kifuma Chanzu",
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    "content": "Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker for giving me the opportunity to support this very important Motion. It is important to support this Motion because our economy is growing very fast. It is one of the fastest growing economies in the world. In fact, the remarks by the President of America, Barack Obama were that our economy was far from what is going on in the Far East, namely, Korea, and the fact that the gap is now closing. That confirmed that our economy is growing very fast. We have just been getting figures, but that was an observation from outside. That growth comes with problems that are associated with growth. We have allowed a situation where people come in and out as they feel like. That is how we have ended up getting illegal firearms in the country. For the arms that we have here, it is important for them to have tracking devices so that we can know where they are at any given time. There have been political assassinations in this country from the 1960s, and the Government has not been able to establish the truth about those crimes. That is because people carry arms which do not have tracking devices. They will be licensed, but you cannot track them. This is a very important Motion. If the licensed guns are tracked properly, then it is also very easy to know those that are coming in illegally. There will be some kind of vigilance and we will identify them very easily. This also puts a lot of responsibility on the Government. Security along the borders should be intensified so that anybody who comes in is properly inspected. If we do that, we will not continue getting illegal arms or those small arms from outside. We will have a proper inventory of what is there. It will require immense work. There is quite a lot of work to be done. It means that there must be a lot of discipline from the very beginning. When we talk about growth or things like corruption, there are those who believe that you cannot earn your money or your wealth through hard work. That is because we have talked about corruption so many times and we see some people just emerging from nowhere and getting wealthy overnight. There is that belief that it is through those kinds of shortcuts that people can create wealth. Because of that, it is very easy to compromise those who are in charge of licensing and tracking. It is something that requires a lot of patriotism. It is just like the examinations. You have seen what happens with our examinations here. We have been running our exams for a long time, but you still find that even the Kenya National Examinations Council (KNEC) is not able to explain the stage at which those exams are stolen. Sometimes, they say that they are stolen when they take them to police stations and when they are transporting them to schools. That means that Kenyans are not yet ethical enough. As we grow, it is good to introduce that kind of thing so that we can start sifting Kenyans. It is just like the Motion we have just passed here, the one that was introduced by Hon. Waluke. It is the same. Because of the stage of development that we are in, this has to come. The Government should be prepared to spend money on this. Maybe, it will have to take people who will be given this duty to some of the places where it has been done so that they can go and see the kind of discipline and patriotism in countries where people regard their country as their country. They do not just believe in corruption, stealing and so on. 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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