the affair crosses borders, Baltasar Ebang Engonga dismissed from his position

The senior Equatorial Guinean official Baltasar Ebang Engonga, author of hundreds of “sex tapes” which were widely leaked on social networks, was dismissed from his post by presidential decree and accused in a testimony broadcast by state television of having kept these videos without the consent of the women involved.

From Nigerian singer Davido to French rapper Kaaris, the viral distribution of intimate images shot by the director of the National Financial Investigation Agency, related to the Head of State, has sparked cascades of comments, memes and parodies on the networks social, and the name « Baltasar » and the hashtag #BaltasarEbangEngonga are among the most discussed topics, alongside the US presidential election.

On Wednesday, November 6, the President of Equatorial Guinea, Teodoro Obiang Nguema, ordered by decree “the dismissal of Baltasar Ebang Engonga as director of the National Financial Investigation Agency”.

The main protagonist imprisoned for another affair

State television TVGE broadcast on Tuesday the indignant protests of a woman with a blurred face presenting herself as one of his partners. “I would like to know where these videos circulating on social networks come from, I would like to know why [les] kept without my consent »she said, thinking “humiliated” in his ” reputation “ and his ” honor “.

This woman explained that she “gave consent” to have his antics filmed, but thought the footage had “was immediately deleted” after viewing.

Baltasar Ebang Engonga’s “sex tapes”, filmed on unknown dates in different locations – including his office at the Ministry of Finance – and with different partners, including wives of local dignitaries, leaked on social networks while he was in preventive detention at Black Beach prison in Malabo, the Equatorial Guinean capital, in a case of embezzlement of public funds.

Internet flow limitation

Their viral spread pushed the country’s authorities to limit Internet flow to stop downloads. But the Baltasar effect spread like wildfire outside Equatorial Guinea, with songs, dances, photomontages.

The subject was even raised on Tuesday in the Kenyan Parliament: the President of the Assembly compared a committee head with “this very kind man with whom women enjoyed having a good time”attracting the wrath of a member of parliament for his “bad behavior”.

Nicknamed “Bello” because of his advantageous physique, the senior civil servant, a fifty-year-old married and father of a family, is the son of Baltasar Engonga Edjo’o, the current president of the commission of the Economic and Monetary Community of Central Africa .

Last week, the Attorney General of the Republic, Anatolio Nzang Nguema, assured that if medical examinations revealed that he was “infected with a sexually transmitted disease”he would be prosecuted for an offense against “public health”.