Obiang Nguema loses 4bn cash, other items to servant!

At a time when eyebrows are steadily rising over the amounts of money held in cash by some African leaders, the sum of 4 billion FCFA is said to have been stolen from the home of Equato-Guinean President, Theodore Obiang Nguema Mbasogo.

By Yemti Harry Ndienla

According to the French news agency, AFP, an estimated 4 billion FCFA, alongside jewels and other high-priced items were stolen from the home of the president recently. A Paraguayan couple with loyalty to the Obiang Nguemas, is alleged to have staged the theft recently.

The trickling reports indicate that the expatriates, hitherto working at the president’s clinic and private residence in Malabo took advantage of his absence to stage the theft. They had won the confidence of the presidential couple as well as that of his entourage. From long years of apparently loyal service, they had free access to his palace, the reports intimated.
Several business concerns belonging to the presidential couple is known to be run by expatriates including Asians, South Americans and Lebanese. And there is every reason to believe that many of them will come under meticulous scrutiny.

And so, Paraguayan man and his wife simply seized advantage of the absence of President Obiang Nguema and First Lady Constancia Mangue Okomo from the Equato-Guinean capital recently to stage their act. They ransacked the presidential couple’s private quarters; breaking into and emptying safes of all their contents. The cash, reports claimed, included thick piles of FCFA, euro bills and dollar banknotes.

Attendant reports at the weekend indicated that a manhunt had been launched to track down the suspects after their sudden disappearance revealed the robbery. They are so far known to have unperturbedly boarded a regular flight from Malabo that ended in Madrid, Spain.
But it remains unclear how they managed to circumvent and sidetrack customs officials and airport security officials with the huge amount of money and valuable item.