Agapito Mba
Mokuy, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation participated on an open
forum to demystify
Equatorial Guinea at the Leon H. Sullivan Foundation Summit, held on August 20-23 in the capital
city of Malabo.
The Minister
provided information on Equatorial Guinea to allow guests, especially the
non-Guineans visiting Equatorial Guinea for the first time, make their own
opinion.
Minister of
Foreign Affairs remembers a girl of about 11 years, who asked him where Equatorial
Guinea was, while he was
giving a presentation at a school in the United States. “The question that this
girl asked, it has been asked throughout my career. This question has been
asked to many Guineans, where is Equatorial Guinea, until recently. That
question encompasses something, the mystery for many, misinformation, and I say
it again, until recently. When speaking of Equatorial Guinea, people did not
know it and those who knew it knew it wrong,” said Agapito Mba Mokuy.
“Equatorial
Guinea is accused in the media of many things, that it is a poor country, where
people live in misery, there’s no light, not even a plane, the only one living
is the President and the other people do not have anything to eat. We see this
in the press. But I think those who have come to Equatorial Guinea have seen
otherwise,” continued to say Minister Mokuy. “This is a President who has been
suffered when people say they don’t know where Equatorial Guinea is, when
talking about all the miseries, the difficulties experienced by the people of
Equatorial Guinea in its history. This President has suffered to restore
dignity to Guineans. Recently, to call someone Ecuato was an insult. Today,
Equatoguineano commands respect thanks to President Obiang Nguema Mbasogo.”
