Miguel Eyegue Explained

Miguel Eyegue
Office:2nd Vice President of Equatorial Guinea
Term Start:2 March 1974
Term End:November 1976
President:Francisco Macías Nguema
Predecessor:Edmundo Bossio
Successor:Position vacant
(Bonifacio Nguema Esono Nchama in 1978)
Birth Name:Miguel Eyegue Ntutumu
Birth Date:May 1933
Birth Place:Micomeseng, Río Muni Province, Spanish Guinea
Death Place:Black Beach prison, Malabo, Bioko Norte, Equatorial Guinea
Death Cause:Execution by firing squad
Party:United National Workers' Party
Spouse:Marguerita Nauzy[1]
Relatives:Ángel Masié Ntutumu (brother)
Branch:Colonial Guard of Spanish Guinea
Serviceyears:1948–1950

Miguel Eyegue Ntutumu (Micomeseng, May 1933[2]Malabo, 29 September 1979) was an Equatoguinean politician.

Biography

His brother was Ángel Masié Ntutumu, first minister of the Interior of Francisco Macías Nguema.[3]

In 1941, he was sponsored by . In 1947 he entered the Provincial Higher School, without finishing his studies. In 1948 he joined the Colonial Guard of Spanish Guinea, which he left in 1950 to enter the commercial sector.

After the independence of Equatorial Guinea from Francoist Spain, he served since October 1968 as President of the [4] and since July 1971 as civil governor of Río Muni.[5] [6]

During the dictatorship of Macías he served as a prison official, being responsible for the execution of many political prisoners.[7] [8]

After the dismissal of Edmundo Bossio in 1974, Eyegue took office on March 2 of that year as acting Vice President of Equatorial Guinea.[9] He was dismissed, imprisoned and tortured after being implicated in the .[10]

After the 1979 coup d'état led by Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo, Eyegue was tried alongside Macías and other defendants for crimes committed during the dictatorship. He was sentenced to death and executed by firing squad on 29 September 1979, at the age of 46.[11]

Notes and References

  1. Book: Liniger-Goumaz, Max. La Guinee Equatoriale. Un pays méconnu. L´ Harmattan. French. 204. 1979. 31 January 2024. 9782858021321.
  2. Book: Liniger-Goumaz, Max. La Guinee Equatoriale. Un pays méconnu. L´ Harmattan. French. 197–198. 1979. 31 January 2024. 9782858021321.
  3. Book: Santiago Calvo, María Jesús. APROXIMACIÓN A LA NARRATIVA CONTEMPORÁNEA GUINEOECUATORIANA EN ESPAÑOL. 2013. 9. Spanish. 31 January 2024.
  4. Revista La Guinea Ecuatorial, número 1.630, octubre-noviembre de 1968, página 24, Depósito Legal: F.P.-10-1959 (PDF).
  5. Web site: JUICIO Y MUERTE DE MACIAS – Historia de Guinea. Spanish. 31 January 2024. 27 September 2021. https://web.archive.org/web/20210927005001/http://www.asodegue.org/hdojmc15.htm. dead.
  6. News: España y Guinea firman un acuerdo comercial. ABC. Spanish. 28 July 1971. 31 January 2024.
  7. Web site: Sobre la verdad histórica de Guinea Ecuatorial. Spanish. 1 March 2017. 31 January 2024.
  8. News: Nze Nfumu. Agustín. Macías, Verdugo o Víctima. Spanish. 2006. Lulu Press, Incorporated . 978-1-4116-8324-2 . 31 January 2024.
  9. News: Macías justificaba los asesinatos por apaleamientos como "suicidios". El País. Spanish. 9 August 1979. 31 January 2024.
  10. Book: Nze Nfumu, Agustín. Macias, Verdugo O Victima. Spanish. 2006. Lulu Press, Incorporated . 31 January 2024. 9781411683242.
  11. Web site: LISTE GÉNÉRALE ALPHABÉTIQUE DES PERSONNES ASSASSINÉES EN GUINÉE ÉQUATORIALE. Coalición CORED. 2010. 31 January 2024. 11 April 2017. https://web.archive.org/web/20170411002527/http://www.cored.fr/LISTE%20310.pdf. dead.