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    "id": 594575,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/594575/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Dawood",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 2572,
        "legal_name": "Abdul Rahim Dawood",
        "slug": "abdul-rahim-dawood"
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    "content": "all firearms within Kenya are registered and tracked. If they are tracked, we will not know what happens with the illegal firearms. This is because they are mainly used in crime. For example, in Meru County, over the past one or two weeks, we have had people coming from Isiolo and killing people in Meru County and nobody wants to take responsibility. If we had a tracking system, we would exactly know who the killers of the people of Meru are. If the government cannot arrest these killers, then the Meru people can arm themselves and use those illegal guns as well. We need protection and we need to get down to this. Regarding tracking of firearms, hon. Korir has talked about them being used for criminal activities but a gun holder will never say that he is going to use it for criminal activities because it depends on a person’s conscience. How will you track a gun when it is being used? Somebody may say he has lost his gun and yet that gun may be tracked to somebody else. I believe we need to think about tracking and know how to go about it. We need to make it easier for people who genuinely need firearms to get them. We have a problem in this country because a gun can be a deterrent as well as a hindrance. Let it be a deterrent so that an armed robber will not shoot you. If you do not have a gun, thugs will shoot you or threaten you. We need to see how we can amend the Firearms Act to make it easy for people who need guns to be issued with them. It may not be like what happens in the USA, where everybody owns a gun."
}