EQUATORIAL GUINEA OFFICIAL FACES INQUIRY OVER HUNDREDS OF EXPLICIT VIDEO RECORDINGS

One Man, Many Women 

Like the saying, wonders shall never end. There's always a new wonder. This is the story of a top official with his many affairs with women.

A top finance official in Equatorial Guinea is being investigated for hundreds of sex videos.

Authorities in Equatorial Guinea on Tuesday, November 5, announced plans to install surveillance cameras in government offices, the latest in a string of actions taken in response to a scandal involving a top government official who allegedly recorded hundreds of sex videos.

The government said it was taking action because the videos had denigrated the tiny Central African country's image.

Equatorial Guinea, with a population of 1.7 million, has been ruled by the same president for decades and the scandal has been shaking the government since the videos first emerged last week.

Baltasar Ebang Engonga, director of the country's National Financial Investigation Agency, has been suspended and is being investigated, Equatorial Guinea’s Vice President Teodoro Nguema Obiang Mangue said in a post on X.

Public investigators were searching Engonga’s computer in the course of a probe into alleged corruption and embezzlement of public funds when they found up to 400 sex videos of him and multiple women, some of them wives and relatives of senior government officials, ranging from the President's cousin, Police Chief's wife, brother's wife, Minister's wife, and many more.

Some of the videos were reported to have leaked and gone viral on social media, prompting shock and outrage from officials.

On Tuesday, Vice President Nguema Obiang Mangue ordered new measures to prevent judiciary and ministry officials from engaging in illicit acts at work, a government statement said. These included installing security cameras in all offices as well as stepped-up security.

The executive is taking this decision following the videos of a sexual nature that have gone viral on social media in recent days and that denigrate the country's image," the state information agency said in the news.