Joseph Mburu Kahangara

All parliamentary appearances

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• 18 Aug 2016 in National Assembly: With those few remarks, I support. 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. view
• 23 Feb 2016 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Speaker. I would also want to add my voice to the Petition by Hon. Kimani Ichung’wah. The people of Kiambu are, indeed, being harassed by the militia groups that are being referred to. We are all aware of the havoc that was caused by the Mungiki in this country some time back. As a country, we cannot allow those sects to come back. The people of Kiambu County and other counties in this country have a right to assemble, demonstrate, petition and to ask for their rights in whatever way. From what we have seen, every time ... view
• 28 Oct 2015 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Deputy Speaker for giving me this opportunity. I rise to support the Motion by Hon. (Dr.) Victor Munyaka. The Motion is very timely considering that many Kenyans have been killed by armed thugs. Firearms should be used to provide security to Kenyans, but they are getting into the wrong hands and are being used to kill our people. It has become very difficult to arrest the people who commit those crimes. They cannot be arrested because whether the firearms are licensed or otherwise, we do not have a system of tracking. We normally hear that the firearms ... view
• 28 Oct 2015 in National Assembly: Hon. Deputy Speaker, there are people who have been licensed to carry firearms. In many instances - like we have heard from my colleagues - those guns end up in the wrong hands. They are hired out to thugs who commit crimes like robberies and end up killing Kenyans. We have seen the same thing happening with police officers who work for the Government. They are hiring out guns to thugs. 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. view
• 28 Oct 2015 in National Assembly: The other guns that we have in this country are the illegal guns which have either been bought from some quarters or come from neighbouring countries with many problems. This means that the provision of Global Positioning Systems (GPS) which Hon. Munyaka is talking about can only be done to the licensed guns. The ones that are being held by officers are the ones that are licensed. We must have another system of tracking illegal guns. How are we able to know that we have illegal guns within the country? view
• 28 Oct 2015 in National Assembly: I remember there was a time that police officers at road blocks used to have some gadgets that would show them that a vehicle had firearms. We heard about it. We saw them for some time but after that, we were told that it was a pilot project. But we have not heard anything about them. The reasons border on corruption. When some of those things want to be acquired by the Government, issues of procurement and vested interests have made sure that we are not able to get the gadgets. So, I am in support of what Hon. Munyaka ... view
• 28 Oct 2015 in National Assembly: The GPS that we are talking about has already been used successfully by the Kenya Revenue Authority (KRA). We have seen that when goods get into Mombasa, the vehicles that are going to Uganda and Rwanda are fitted with those gadgets. The KRA is able to track those vehicles meaning that the vehicle cannot even deviate from the road that it is supposed to follow. When that happens, they alert the officers within that particular area and the vehicles are arrested. The same thing is happening to lorries that are carrying goods from Kenya. Some would want to dump the ... view
• 28 Oct 2015 in National Assembly: With those few remarks Hon. Deputy Speaker, I support the Motion. view
• 28 Oct 2015 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker for giving me this opportunity. I rise to support the Motion. I am a Member of the Departmental Committee on Administration and National Security. I would like to tell my colleagues who do not support this Motion that the Committee did not have any interest on this matter. It was a petition that was brought by a Kenyan and he has the right to do so. The Committee, as Hon. Gikaria tried to say, sympathised and tried to go out of its way by asking many questions before we arrived at the recommendations. Something ... view
• 28 Oct 2015 in National Assembly: if you remove three, you are left with only six members. From there, we had Madam Esther, who passed on. This means that the people who could form quorum were only five. One is Major (Rtd.) Shadrack Muiu. In his absence, it simply means that if the NPSC tried to make any decision while doing its work, it would be illegal because they did not have a quorum. The NPSC has to continue working. Remember the kind of work they are trying to do for this country. We are talking about police reforms. We have seen them undertake vetting of ... view