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    "id": 594531,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/594531/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Korir",
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        "legal_name": "Wesley Kipchumba Korir",
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    "content": "Thank you, Hon. Deputy Speaker. I want this House and my fellow Members of Parliament to understand one thing. If somebody is trying to acquire a gun illegally and then you tell him to put a tracking device on it, do you think he is going to do so? If you read the Motion from the beginning, it talks about victims of crime attributable to stolen and illegally acquired firearms. Those are the firearms that are killing our people. Legally-acquired guns are not killing our people in this country. It is illegally acquired guns from Somalia and Sudan that are killing our people. Do you think somebody will go to Somalia, buy a gun, come over to Kenya and agree to put a tracking device on it when he intends to use the weapon for committing crime? He will not. We will be tracking legally acquired guns, which will forever not be used. That is why I have introduced the statement “if the gun is used for criminal activity”. Do not look at it as if I am trying to bring an amendment to prevent tracking of guns because you have already registered it. If you already did so and you own it legally, then you do not need to put a tracking device to track it. However, if it is used illegally or is lost, then we can track the device. Otherwise, my friends, we will be putting the lives of our officers and under-cover police officers at risk."
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