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Real Equatorial Guinea claims that a significant scandal involving explicit videos, some of which feature well-known people and officials’ spouses, is centred on Baltasar Ebang Engonga, a senior Equatorial Guinean official and the director general of the nation’s Anti-graft National Agency for Financial Investigation (ANIF).
The nation’s leadership has expressed shock and issued disciplinary warnings in response to the tapes, which were purportedly discovered during a fraud investigation.
During an investigation, officials searched Engonga’s home and office and found more than 400 obscene films purportedly showing him with a variety of women, including relatives of government officials.
According to reports, the video, which was discovered on his office grounds, shows interactions with the wives of a number of high-ranking officials, including the president’s sister, the director general of police, and almost 20 ministers. With the participants’ permission, all interactions were videotaped, and sequences were purportedly shot in a variety of settings, such as his office, hotels, and restrooms.
Vice President Teodoro Nquema openly addressed the issue on X (previously Twitter) in response to the incident, declaring that sexual activity is completely prohibited in administrative settings. He emphasized the consequences for any such infractions and gave a severe warning.
Sexual connections in offices are forbidden, he added, “given the abuse that has been shown on social media in Equatorial Guinea in recent days, and remembering that ministries are solely and exclusively for carrying out administrative work in support of the country’s development.” “There are already controls in place, and anyone who breaks this rule again will face disciplinary action for indecent behaviour and will lose their job.”
Engonga, 54, who oversees financial investigations and spearheads anti-corruption initiatives for ANIF, might potentially be subject to disciplinary action. He is the son of the Economic and Monetary Community of Central Africa (CEMAC) president, Baltasar Engonga Edjoo.
Engonga, who is married and has six children, may face serious challenges to his career as a government official as Equatorial Guinea’s leadership attempts to manage the scandal’s aftermath in the face of extensive social media coverage.
