A socialist warlord?

Ankhtifi 

From “The Oxford History of Ancient Egypt”, as quoted in “The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity” by Graeber and Wengrow.

How a supposed “warlord”, one Ankhtifi, from the “Egyptian Dark Ages” (The First Intermediate Period) celebrated his achievements…

>>>I gave bread to the hungry and clothing to the naked; I anointed those who had no cosmetic oil; I gave sandals to the barefooted; I gave a wife to him who had no wife. (…) The south came with its people and the north with its children; they brought finest oil in exchange for barley which was given to them…

>>>All of Upper Egypt were dying of hunger and people were eating their children, but I did not allow anybody to die of hunger in this nome…never did I allow anybody in need to go from this nome to another one. I am the hero without equal.

Sounds almost like a Social Democrat. It could all be lies, of course. But that still doesn´t answer the question: why were Dark Age warlords in Egypt lying in this particular manner, rather than in some other way?

Or it could be true, for all we know. Gotta love the Dark Ages!