Victor Kioko Munyaka

All parliamentary appearances

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• 29 Jul 2015 in National Assembly: Firearms are mostly used by individuals for self-defence and by Government agents for maintaining law and order. Criminals use guns for robberies, assassinations, cattle rustling, poaching and to cause terror on innocent Kenyans. There are also cases where illegal firearms have been used in human rights abuses. For example in Nigeria, members of the Boko Haram use illegal guns to kidnap and mistreat girls. Most importantly, illegal guns have been used in political conflicts and civil wars like has been the case in South Sudan, Congo and Somalia. Illegal guns in the possession of citizens cause many deaths and a ... view
• 29 Jul 2015 in National Assembly: The Government has been having a lot of problems in dealing with illegal guns. It is a major crisis because most guns are cheap and readily available. The life of a gun is usually very long such that somebody can keep one and use it to terrorise communities for a very long time. Most of the guns are concealable. Due to this fact, somebody can transport a gun without anybody noticing. Most guns are acquired legally, especially by the Government for purposes of defence, security and maintaining law and order. Most private gun owners purchase their guns from authorised dealers ... view
• 29 Jul 2015 in National Assembly: The gist of my Motion is to urge the Government to register and fit all guns with tracking devices. To register a gun is to enter information about that particular firearm in an official book or a system of public records, so that we can have a data-base of all the firearms. This is similar to what Kenya has done in the past by requiring all Kenyans to register their mobile phones. We also register our motor vehicles and parcels of land. This is not a new thing for the Government. Registration is vital so that we can know the ... view
• 29 Jul 2015 in National Assembly: There are several methods through which we can track guns. For instance, it can be through the Global Positioning System (GPS), where a firearm tracking system comprising of a geographic position signaling unit is securely attached to the firearm and wirelessly inter- connected to a monitoring station. The monitoring station would be a station where we have a bureau of professional and ethical people who should safeguard the information of whoever owns a gun in the country. Many people may fear that if they have a gun and they are being monitored, somebody may sell out their whereabouts. This then ... view
• 29 Jul 2015 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. Let me go straight to the immediate benefits of tracking firearms. The authorities will ascertain without doubt who is entrusted with a firearm at any one time. They will also determine the physical location of a firearm in real time and detect any change of geo-physical location of a firearm thus raise advance concern about the change. So, we will know that a particular firearm has moved from the operation area to a different area. More importantly, the authorities will be able to recover stolen or lost firearms. The other major advantage is that ... view
• 29 Jul 2015 in National Assembly: Thank you very much, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I wish to call upon Hon. Lemein to second this Motion. view
• 1 Apr 2015 in National Assembly: Thank you, hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I also want to register my thanks for the Presidential Address. I want to acknowledge that it was one of the best speeches ever made by a Head of State in Kenya. I really want to thank him because of offering an apology to all Kenyans for the past injustices meted on them. Looking at the House that particular day, I noticed Senators Wetangula, Orengo, Omar Hassan, Khalwale and, in fact, all Members of Parliament gave a standing ovation because of that very good Address. I was particularly impressed by him, noting that there ... view
• 1 Apr 2015 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, what I want is to request the EACC that before they bring a report to this House, they should have done a thorough investigation. They should have talked to the people of Machakos County to know whether there was value for money and whether they are being served well. I thank you, hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. view
• 4 Mar 2015 in National Assembly: Hon. Speaker, I beg to give notice of the following Motion:- THAT, aware that many innocent Kenyans have been victims of crime attributable to stolen and illegally acquired firearms; concerned that despite the proliferation of small arms, there has not been efforts to track location, movement and use of firearms held by licensed persons and the disciplined forces; acknowledging the need to adopt a mechanism for providing real-time geophysical location and movement of firearms to facilitate recovery of stolen firearms and forensic identification of guns used in crime scenes; cognizant of the fact that a number of countries continue to ... view
• 10 Feb 2015 in National Assembly: Thank you, hon. Speaker. On my behalf, my family and the people of Machakos Town, I want to send my condolences to the family of hon. Muchai and the people of Kabete. We sympathize with them and the Government should take security matters seriously. view