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Baltasar Engonga Sex Leak Videos: Equatorial Guinea Politics, Vice President Teodoro Obiang and Ebanga Engonga
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Baltasar Engonga Sex Leak Videos: Equatorial Guinea Politics, Vice President Teodoro Obiang and Ebanga Engonga

Photo of Baltasar Ebang Engonga in a blue suit, white shirt and patterned tie.

Where did this photo come from? Baltasar Ebang Engonga / Facebook

What we call dis photo, Baltasar Ebang Engonga bin chop detention due to suspicion of corruption bifor di videos bin leaked

  • Author, Inès Silva and Damian Zane
  • Role, BBC News

What the rest of the world sees as a sex tape scandal may actually be the latest episode in the real-life drama over who becomes Equatorial Guinea’s next president.

Over the past fortnight, they have leaked dozens of videos – estimates vary from 150 to more than 400 – of a senior official with whom he works for his office and in other locations with different women.

These videos are broadcast on all social networks, they are shocking and arouse the sexual interest of certain pipo for the small countries of Central Africa and beyond.

Many women are looking for the video of Pipo’s wives and relatives who are close to the center of power.

It’s like saying some of them know how to say dem bin dey feel dem wen dem bin dey do kerewa (sex) Baltasar Ebang Engonga, they are also popular as “Bello” because I’m fine.

All this is difficult to verify because Equatorial Guinea is a very restricted society and where a free press does not exist at all.

But one theory is that the leaks are a way to discredit the man at the center of the storm.

Mr Engonga is the nephew of President Teodoro Obiang Nguema and one of the di pipo they hope to replace.

Obiang is the world’s longest-serving president, having been in power since 1979.

This 82-year-old is not overseeing an economic boom that does not translate into the destruction of dwindling oil reserves.

There’s a shopping mall, an extremely wealthy elite, but many of the country’s 1.7 million people live in poverty.

The Obiang administration has been heavily criticized for its human rights record, including secret killings and torture, according to a US government report.

They also don’t have their share of scandals – including revelations about the lavish lifestyle of one of the president’s sons, who is currently vice president.

I will receive $275,000 (£210,000) worth of crystal-encrusted gloves that Michael Jackson wears.

Despite regular elections, there is no real opposition for Equatorial Guinea, as activists have entered prisons and pushed some into exile, and they closely monitor those seeking office.

Michael Jackson's glove is covered in crystal

Where did this photo come from? AFP

What we call dis photo, The Vice President, Teodoro Obiang Mangue, received the “Bad Tour” glove from Michael Jackson and I have ambitions to become president one day.

The politics for the conflicts are really linked to the interests of the palace and the scandals involving Mr. Engonga.

I am the former head of the National Financial Investigation Agency and I work to combat crimes like money laundering.

But I must say that I am also under investigation.

They were arrested on October 25, on charges that I was stealing a large sum of money from the Treasury and depositing it into secret accounts for the Cayman Islands. I said nothing about this accusation.

They will transport Mr Engonga to the notorious Black Beach prison in the capital, Malabo, as they claim they mete out brutal treatment to government opponents.

They take over my phones and computers and a few days later, intimate videos start appearing online.

The first reference the BBC found for Facebook and from October 28 Diario Rombe pagea news site run by a journalist exiled in Spain, who says that “social media has exploded with the leaking of explicit images and videos.”

A post on X di the next day bin refers to a “monumental scandal which is shaking the regime” while “pornographic videos are flooding social networks”.

Photo of Teodoro Obiang Mangue wearing sunglasses, as I told reporters holding microphones

Where did this photo come from? AFP

What we call dis photo, Teodoro Obiang Mangue (left) becomes vice-president of di kontri for 2016

But they believe the videos appeared one by one a few days earlier on Telegram, for one of the platform’s channels known for posting pornographic images.

Pipo downloads them for dia phones and starts sharing them among Equatorial Guinea WhatsApp groups, we cause kasala beta.

They quickly identified Mr. Engonga as well as some of the women in the videos, including relatives of the president and the wives of ministers and senior military officials.

On October 30, Vice President Teodoro Obiang Mangue (the man who received the glove from Michael Jackson) gave telecommunications companies 24 hours to find ways to stop the broadcast of these clips.

“We cannot watch families fall apart without taking action,” I write about.

“In the meantime, they are investigating the origin of these publications to find pipo or groups of pipo in order to hold them accountable for their actions.”

While the computer equipment is in the hands of the security forces, suspicion falls on certain pipo who, in good health, find a way to spoil Mr. Engonga’s reputation before a trial.

Police are not calling on women to come forward to open a case against Mr Engonga for non-consensual sharing of intimate images. It has already not been announced that she is going to sue me.

It is not clear why Mr. Engonga feels the times when they have kerewa (sex).

But activists do not suggest what the diabetes motives could be behind this explosive leak.

Although I am related to the president, Mr. Engonga is the son of Baltasar Engonga Edjo’o, head of the regional economic and monetary union, Cemac, and I am very influential for the country.

“This is when we see the end of an era, the end of the current president, and we wonder who is going to take over, and the infighting that we see,” the president said. Equatorial Guinean activist Nsang Christia Esimi Cruz. we live for London now

Listening to the BBC’s Focus on Africa podcast, I assert that Vice President Obiang is trying to politically eliminate “anyone who might challenge his succession.”

Pipo bin queues in front of a polling station to vote for Malabo - November 2022

Where did this photo come from? AFP

What we call dis photo, President Teodoro Obiang Nguema bin obtained almost 95% of the votes in the elections held two years ago.

They suspect the Vice President, along with his mother, is trying to remove all those who threaten my path to the presidency, including Gabriel Obiang Lima (another son of President Obiang by another wife), who is a former Minister of Oil. For 10 years, I moved into a supporting role.

They thought that the pipo, we are the elite, knew things about every oda that they could not make public and that they did not use videos in the past to humiliate and discredit a political opponent.

Numerous accusations of coup plots are common, which makes Pipo even more anxious.

But Mr Cruz also says authorities want to use the scandal as an excuse to crack down on social media, because of how much information about what is really happening in the country is being made public.

In July, authorities temporarily suspended the Internet after protests on the island of Annobón.

For him, it is not surprising that a high official has sex outside of marriage, as it is part of the spoiled lifestyle of the rich pipo for the kontri.

The vice president, we have also been found guilty of corruption for France, we have also had lavish assets seized for various conflicts, we want to make them see as a man who is cracking down on corruption and wrongdoing for the house.

But in this case, despite the vice president’s efforts to stop the clips from playing, they continue to watch me.

This week I’m trying to sound like people who aren’t making serious decisions after calling for CCTV cameras to be installed in government offices “to combat indecent and unlawful acts.” na wetin di official press agency bin report.

I must say that the scandal does not “spoil the image of the country”, so to say that they will suspend all civil servants who find out that they are engaging in sexual acts for work, for example for “a blatant violation of the code of conduct.

I’m not wrong in saying that this story doesn’t attract much outside interest.

Judging by the data Google gets, search queries include the topic name and have increased since the start of the week.

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That doesn’t leave some activists who are trying to tell the world what really makes them happy for them frustrated.

“Equatorial Guinea has much bigger problems because of the sex scandal,” said Mr. Cruz, who works for a rights organization called GE Nuestra tok.

“For us, this sex scandal is only a symptom of illness, not the illness itself. I’m just showing how corrupt the system is.

Additional reporting by Peter Mwai of BBC Verify.