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    "id": 594540,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Lentoimaga",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Alois Musa Lentoimaga",
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    "content": "I would like to appeal that if this Motion is passed, the Committee on Implementation should take it up. It is very important to track those firearms; the registered and unregistered ones. In my constituency, we lost almost 50 firearms from the policemen who were massacred on 10th November 2012. To date, those firearms have not been recovered. They are used to attack, maim and kill our people. One of the firearms was recovered in Isiolo because of a contact. Police are unable to get those firearms from the people who acquired them forcefully. That is because they do not have a gadget to locate the firearms. This Motion will go a long way in assisting the police and any Government security agencies that would like to recover the firearms when they are snatched from the policemen. During the Garissa massacre and Kapedo killings, policemen lost firearms. We are unable to track and get those firearms back. They are now used to kill people. We need to put those gadgets in our systems so that we can track them. For the registered gun holders like me and some of the hon. Members here, sometimes we take firearms because it is prestigious. It is dangerous to have a firearm if you are not trained well. Even carrying it around is dangerous because you become a target. There is a lot of agitation and requests by Members of County Assemblies (MCAs) and County Executive Committees (CECs) to have guns. Everybody wants a gun, but they do not know how they are posing themselves to a very great danger. The training is important. Fitting the tracking device is also important so that you can be detected. In case the firearm is used for wrong purposes rather than protecting yourself, then that particular person can be netted, brought to book, arrested and charged in a court of law. That way, we can minimise the wrong use of guns, which include cattle raiding. I support this Motion. If passed, I would like to see it implemented."
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