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    "id": 594468,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. S.S. Ahmed",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Ahmed Shakeel Shabbir Ahmed",
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    "content": "holders. This is practised all over the world except in America. These automatic guns cannot be used. It is very important that this is done. In Kisumu we have had crooks who have been hiring guns or taking guns from the armouries. They come up with AK-47 and Uzi guns and these are very sophisticated. We are wondering because some of these guns only belong to the army and the police, and you cannot even get their ammunition, yet we see crooks carrying them. We are wondering how that happens. If we are able to track these guns from the armoury, we will be able to track some of these people. This tracking system should not only track guns but also the gun holder. If the gun holder is in a different location from the gun that he is meant to be holding, then that is a criminal offence. The final issue that I would like to mention on this score is the proliferation of guns in areas such as Kisumu. We have even heard of bodyguards of one of the Members of Parliament being arrested in Kisumu in a robbery. We wonder how this happens; police officers who are not on duty are now with criminals. Firearms tracking and registration systems must be updated. Hon. Deputy Speaker, as I said earlier, the Central Firearms Bureau is, unfortunately handicapped. They have archaic systems. They do not even have a computer. They use their own personal computers. We need to revamp the Central Firearms Bureau and give it a bigger budget to make sure that tracking systems are initiated very quickly. Thank you, Hon. Deputy Speaker."
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