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Animals sometimes enter into a state of an apparent paralysis something we can also refer to as animal hypnosis. This situation is mostly experienced when the animal is extensively provoked and is in a defensive mode against exterior threats or when they are plain helpless. This phenomenon is known as tonic immobility.

The Kenyan security agencies seem to have been grasped by a tonic immobility in the recent past. This unfortunately will be at the expense of ignorant and innocent Kenyans. I was vastly perturbed when I recently watched an investigative article in one of the local TV stations on the security situation in the country. “Terrorist’s playground” as was the title of the feature. A well-researched feature on the lax state of our security agencies.

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