Emasculating national security services has been to our detriment

There is no denying that in the last couple of months, the country has dealt with a swarm of security challenges. The knee-jerk reaction of the political c lass as well as citizens and denizens of social media has personalised the problems in a merry-go-round-like blame game.

But while we are quick to blame, we adopt the supersonic speed of a sloth to offer "solutions" to the challenges. We have become like the medieval kingdoms where quick-fix "solutions" (if solutions they were) was to have someone's head under the guillotine.