Hundreds of s*x films involving a high-ranking Equatorial Guinean public worker and other men’s spouses have circulated on social media, forcing officials to try to stop their dissemination.
In the tapes, Baltasar Ebang Engonga, the married director of the National Financial Investigation Agency (ANIF), is shown in public with several partners, including the wives of senior officials, at his finance ministry office.
On Monday, the country’s vice president Teodoro Nguema Obiang Mangue announced on X that the government would order the “immediate suspension of all civil servants who have had s*xual relations in the offices of the ministries, as this constitutes a flagrant violation of the code of conduct and the law on public ethics”.
It is not the first time that s*x films of civil personnel have been exposed on social media.
However, because of the officials’ reputation, the incident has reached unparalleled proportions.
Last week, Obiang stated that he had given Equatorial Guinea’s telecommunications ministry, regulator, and telephone providers 24 hours’ notice “to curb the distribution of p*rn*graphic videos that are flooding social networks in Equatorial Guinea”.
“As the government, we cannot continue to see families destroyed,” said the vice-president in charge of defence and security.
Engonga shot around 400 p*rn*graphic recordings in his office, according to claims originally circulated through Whatsapp groups and subsequently shared on Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, and X.
Ebang Engonga, nicknamed “Bello” for his excellent looks, is a married parent and the son of Baltasar Engonga Edjo, the current Chairman of the Commission of the Central African Economic and Monetary Community.
He is also related to the country’s long-time president.
The s*x films were posted on social media when he was held in imprisonment at Malabo’s notorious Black Beach prison for misappropriation of public funds, according to state news station TVGE.
Anatolio Nzang Nguema, Equatorial Guinea’s chief prosecutor, promised TVGE that if medical investigations indicated that Ebang Engonga was “infected with a s*xually transmitted disease,” he would be arrested for “public health violations.”
Witnesses told AFP that the flow of internet traffic, particularly image downloads, has been substantially interrupted in the country since the government took efforts to combat the proliferation of s*x films.
Social media is awash with speculation that further films involving other people, both men and women, may be posted in the coming days.
