‘Handshake’ cannot be yardstick for everything

Watching news on television can be exasperating. There are times when you watch and listen to some Communication Experts and Specialists and realise they actually need basic lessons in communication. Other times you listen to Security Experts and Specialists peddle such pedestrian arguments, you get convinced a village yokel could give a better analysis.

Early this week, for instance, there was discourse on whether licensing security guards to carry light arms was judicious. This was informed by the recent terrorist attack on the dusitD2 hotel in Nairobi. While two of the three security experts on a televised debate gave their objective views, the other expert was caustic.  In regard to security guards (read watchmen), he had this to say: ‘They are warm bodies in uniform, only slightly better than the dead’. Insolence, arrogance, do not come worse than that, yet these are some of the bright sparks the nation relies on for enlightening information.