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Government rocked by sex tape scandal

Publish date: 12 November 2024
Issue Number: 1102
Diary: IBA Legalbrief Africa
Category: Equatorial Guinea

Hundreds of sex tapes involving a high-ranking Equatorial Guinean civil servant with other men’s wives have done the rounds on social media, prompting the authorities to attempt to curb their spread. IoL reports that the married director of the National Financial Investigation Agency, Baltasar Engonga, has been filmed with various partners, including the wives of prominent officials, in his office. Vice-President Teodoro Nguema Obiang Mangue announced on X that the government would order the ‘immediate suspension of all civil servants who have had sexual relations in the offices of the Ministries, as this constitutes a flagrant violation of the code of conduct and the law on public ethics’. Mangue last week said he had given 24 hours' notice to the Telecommunications Ministry, regulator and telephone companies ‘to curb the distribution of pornographic videos that are flooding social networks in Equatorial Guinea’. ‘As the government, we cannot continue to see families destroyed,’ he said.

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