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Suna East MP Junet Mohamed. [Caleb Kingwara, Standard]

Suna East MP Junet Mohamed has an interesting manner of speech. When he speaks, which is often, his tongue works faster than his brain, which means his train of thought often wanders and meanders before concluding in an unpredictable direction.

“Sasa jan-le-jana…” he stutters, unable to decide whether the narrative he’s about to unleash happened yesterday or today. In fiction, this phenomenon is called an unreliable narrator. For if one cannot affirm when the details he’s narrating truly occurred, then why should we believe any details at all?

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