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    "id": 594571,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Nakara",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "John Lodepe Nakara",
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    "content": "Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I rise to support this Motion. First of all, this is possible. We can implement it in this country because even our neighbour, Uganda, tells our people from Turkana to leave their guns behind when they go there. This is because that country declared that everybody with an illegal firearm must be arrested. Hon. Members of Parliament should not make these Motions appear impossible to implement. We must differentiate between the guns issued to the armed forces and those issued to civilians. We must have two tracking methods. We must track the armed forces’ guns differently from the civilians’ so that we can secure the lives of our policemen and policewomen. If we have one tracking method, we will endanger the lives of our police. We must have two methods of tracking illegal firearms. We must also tell the sellers of the guns that they must have the details of those who buy guns. Those details must be taken to the police for easy tracking because to some people it is business as usual. They sell guns to anybody without taking their details, therefore, making it very hard to track somebody with an illegal gun. We need to encourage the suppliers and the sellers of guns to make sure that the details of whoever goes to buy a gun are forwarded to the police station for easy tracking. This will help us to control the movement of guns from one place to the other. Some people go to far areas to commit crimes using guns that have been borrowed or have been taken from their friends. If we have tracking devices, they will make sure that these people are tracked wherever they go with those guns. Sometimes they take guns from Nairobi, go to a nearby town to commit crimes, come back the following day and surrender the guns to their owners. If we have tracking devices, it will be easy to know that this gun has left Nairobi at a certain time and it has gone to a nearby town at a certain time. We will also know who has been using the gun. This process is going to save lives of people. It is going to bring criminal activities down and control the movement of criminal gangs because they will be monitored. It will also bring the element of accountability. Any officer who gives out a gun must be accountable. We have read cases where some officers gave their guns to friends to commit crimes and when they are arrested they say they borrowed the guns. In order for us to make our forces disciplined, we must have tracking devices so that if your gun is found to have been used wrongly, you are held accountable and as a result face the law for giving your gun to a criminal or lending it to a friend. For us who know about guns and whose relatives have lost their lives because of guns, we want this process to be initiated as quickly as possible so that we can save the lives of our people. There are cases where officers go after cattle rustlers in nearby towns and when cattle rustlers are killed, they are found with identification cards belonging to officers in the police force or armed forces. For us to get that culprit, we must have tracking devices so that if you leave police camp with a gun, it will be easy for you to be tracked so that you can be arrested especially when you use that gun to kill people or for cattle rustling. To promote safety of our people, anybody with a gun must use it at the right place and at the right time. Some people carry guns all over. You will meet somebody in a supermarket or a hotel carrying a gun. So, this motion will make people leave their guns at home and only take them when they are going outside the town or where they feel they are not secure. 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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