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President of Equatorial Guinea Obiang Nguema Mbasogo, has appointed Manuela Roka Botey as the country’s first prime minister, the first Equatoguinean woman to hold the position.
The world’s longest-serving head of state, President of Equatorial Guinea Obiang Nguema Mbasogo, has appointed Manuela Roka Botey as the country’s first prime minister, the first Equatoguinean woman to hold the position.
Through a Presidential Decree on 31st January, he announced the appointment of Manuela Roka Botey, the former Deputy Minister for Education, as Prime Minister of the Government. Roka Botey served as the Vice-rector of the National University of Equatorial Guinea and Sister Militant in the Baney PDGE District Monitoring Commission. She will hold the charge of Administrative Coordination and replaces Francisco Pascual Obama Asue who held the position for nearly eight years.
The decree also confirmed the positions of three Vice Prime Ministers of the Government. These included Clemente Engonga Nguema Onguene, First Vice Prime Minister and Minister for Education, University Teaching, and Sports; Ángel Mesie Mibuy, Second Vice Prime Minister of the Government, Charged with Parliamentary Relations and Legal Affairs, and Alfonso Nsue Mokuy, Third Vice Prime Minister, Charged with Human Rights.
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The 80-year-old Obiang was re-elected for a sixth term with 95 percent of the vote in November. Since its independence from Spain in 1968, Equatorial Guinea has had only two presidents, Obiang and his uncle, Francisco Macias Nguema whom Obiang deposed, in a coup in August 1979.
