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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Njuki",
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        "legal_name": "Onesmus Muthomi Njuki",
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    "content": "Thank you, Hon. Deputy Speaker for giving me this opportunity to contribute to this Motion. I also want to thank the Hon. Member of Parliament for Machakos Town, Dr. Victor Munyaka, for coming up with this timely Motion. Hon. Deputy Speaker, the highest risk of insecurity in this country is normally caused by illegal firearms in the hands of criminals. That is one of the biggest threats to existence of peace in this country. What this Motion seeks to do is to put into implementation a technology that has been with us for some time. It is a technology that we use every day; a technology that is, maybe, a darling to many people. But, it has never been thought it can help in security. The Global Positioning System (GPS) is with us. It is a darling of very many parents. Parents usually put a tracking device in the hands of their children in form of a bangle, so that they can know where the children are. Some spouses are tracking their spouses with gadgets in cars. That is where you buy a car and you fit a tracking device in the car, and you know where your spouse is. Even businessmen have fleets of trucks which they manage by use of the GPS to track where they are. It has also been used by the insurance companies and the police forces. It is all over. It is with us, even in our phones. Somebody put it there today; it is there and it is in use. But, why have we not used it in tracking guns? There is a gentleman who, through research came up with a gadget he calls “Firearms Telematics”. It is an electronic sensor or a microchip, which can be put in any part of the gun, including the barrel or handle. This gadget has the capacity to do so many things. It can show the location of the gun, it can tell when a gun is fired, how many rounds the gun has fired, and it can also tell the direction the gun is pointing. It can give you information when the gun was removed from the holster and all kinds of things. That is a complete solution to some of the crime scenes that we normally try to solve by a lot of arguments in courts; gun specialists normally look at the hole that is made by a gun on a part of a body or building to tell the direction from which it was shot. This technology will solve our problem. But, if this gadget is fitted in the guns of civilians who are licensed, what is the guarantee that these individuals have security over their lives? This is because it depends on who will be in charge of this system. Will it be the police or a specialised unit? If this information is accessible to everybody or to a wide range of people, then it also becomes a security threat to the people who use it. Those are some of the things that we should look at. Any technology that is usually implemented through the cyber space is normally a threat to cyber crime. With the kind of cyber security we have at the moment, it is also possible that the system can be hacked and people traced by criminals. Nowadays, one of the biggest threats to cyber security, or cyber bullying, is the extent that we have extortionists who are demand money. As we talk, my personal computer has been hacked and all my files corrupted. I have been asked by criminals to pay some money, so that they can release my PC. It is as if they have taken it hostage because I cannot do anything on it. So, what will happen when this data gets into the hands of such criminals? Those are some of the things we have to look at even as we support this Bill. Is it possible that we can have this system implemented among civilians and then we leave out the police? That will be an effort in futility, because most of the guns which are found in crime scenes, unfortunately, are from the hands of rogue policemen. A few minutes ago, the Member of Parliament for Kisumu said that the security man of one of our colleagues was involved in an incident in Kisumu. I was talking to that Hon. Member of Parliament this morning. You will be surprised to know that the gun was found in the hands of the driver and not 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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