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.
Minister of Foreign Affairs highlighted some aspects of the criticism that Equatorial
Guinea has overseas. There is talk of no democratic freedoms in Equatorial
Guinea. It's easy to say, but you know that before President Obiang came to
power, the churches were closed in Equatorial Guinea, there was no religious
freedom in Equatorial Guinea. Today, we have churches everywhere. I wake up in
the morning by loud people here I live, and when I see, there is a church everywhere,”
said Agapito Mba Mokuy.
All the churches have the freedom to practice in Equatorial Guinea. Minister Mba Mokuy continued
to say, “In a democracy, this is called freedom of religion. And you cannot
accuse this person (Obiang), this country, that has made the switch to not
have churches, to close all possibilities of freedom of worship to where we are
today, that is not making progress. If this is not democracy, I wonder what the
definition of democratic principles is.”
