Shaken to the Core: The Balthazar Case that’s Sending Shockwaves Through Equatorial Guinea

His name is Balthazar Ebang Engonga. He is the Director General of the National Financial Investigation Agency (ANIF). This position of high responsibility made this nephew of President Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo an influential figure in the socio-political landscape of Equatorial Guinea. Except as an investigation, Balthazar Ebang liked rummaging under women’s skirts more than digging through financial administration files. His fantasy: multiplying his female conquests and filming his sexual antics, we don’t really know for what purposes. And there, he did not fly dead. A…bazooka attack that left no fewer than four hundred victims under…his duvet, when his office was not serving as his…guest room at times. The fact remains that the pot-aux-roses are eventually discovered, and in the nastiest of ways, by being displayed in all their ugliness on social networks, after the massive leak of her intimate videos in including a number of women including wives of high dignitaries from the Republic. And that’s not all, in his deadly sexual excess, “Bello”, as he was nicknamed, did not set limits in his immorality, going so far as to put his weapon of seduction to a huge test, his little brother’s wife and even his uncle’s pregnant wife. What basis! What ignorance! For a normal man, there is nothing to be proud of such actions which are based on basic instincts which are contrary to all ethics. And the irony is that by multiplying the partners, the fiery Don Juan set as a stallion, barely bothered with foreplay, much less protected sex, no doubt in a hurry to go straight down to the “cellar” to satisfy his thirst libidinous instincts. This shows how irresponsibility competed with immorality in this senior executive of the Public Ministry who became a real public danger, given the alarming health repercussions of his actions which did not leave the authorities indifferent. And beyond the investigation into the health of the hot rabbit, the vice president himself, Teodorin Obiang Nguema Mangue, stepped in to warn his compatriots against breaking ethical and moral rules within the Public Ministry, bringing remember that “sexual relations are prohibited in offices”. This shows how much this affair of intimate videos is shaking the Republic and embarrassing even the power summit in Malabo. Because, beyond the impressive catalog of his victims who see their lives turned upside down overnight, the name and image of an entire nation is thus soiled and tarnished. And it is an understatement to say that through this thunderous way of entering History through the door of lust, Balthazar Ebang Engonga does not honor his father who remains a highly respected personality within the Economic Community Commission and the Central African Monetary Authority (CEMAC). ) of which he is president. Moreover, the position of this close relation to the Head of State at the head of this prestigious financial institution makes the scandal much more resounding because, beyond the suspicions of corruption and lack of public funds, his behavior raises profound ethical questions about morality. senior civil servants and their duty to set an example within society. Although the involvement of the Republic’s aristocratic wives does not protect the “Terminator” with his unfettered chute from the possible vengeful wrath of a cuckoo’s powerful spouse. Beyond that, the affair of Balthazar Ebang raises questions about the relationship with the power of the African ruling elite. Because, on a large or small scale, there are hidden Balthazars in our public administrations, who take advantage of their position and the advantages of power to authorize this type of highly disgraceful behavior. The difference is that the famous Equatorial Guinea now in the light underwear seems to have reduced the risk of its productions of grade X films, linked to the arrival of new technologies. And he learned it the hard way, at the end of his dusty name and a literally shattered family life. For the rest, this sex tape story is a social phenomenon that also raises the problem of women’s vulnerability to the power of money and their psychology which is still difficult to understand. Because it was only a matter of materially and financially disadvantaged women that some would have had a quick and ready explanation. But when it comes to women of high society theoretically sheltered from want, we end up losing our Latin. Ha! Balthazar!

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