“Hunyepa the spin doctor”

He follows in the footsteps of equally discredited characters like Joseph Goebbels and Mohammed Saeed al-Sahhaf, otherwise known as Comical Ali, so named because of the most outlandish claims he made during his daily press briefings during the US invasion of Iraq in 2003. It was Comical Ali who claimed that American soldiers were committing suicide "by the hundreds" outside Baghdad, and further denied that there were any American tanks in the city, when in fact they were only several hundred metres away from the press conference venue and the combat sounds of nearing American troops could already be heard in the background of the broadcast.

This is the level our own Comical Hunyepa has descended to. He talks of an imagined "exponential growth" the BNF is experiencing under the leadership of Adv. Duma Boko. The facts on the ground tell a different story.