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Miguel Eyegue

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Miguel Eyegue
2nd Vice President of Equatorial Guinea
In office
2 March 1974 – November 1976
PresidentFrancisco Macías Nguema
Preceded byEdmundo Bossio
Succeeded byPosition vacant
(Bonifacio Nguema Esono Nchama in 1978)
Personal details
Born
Miguel Eyegue Ntutumu

May 1933
Micomeseng, Río Muni Province, Spanish Guinea
DiedSeptember 29, 1979(1979-09-29) (aged 46)
Black Beach prison, Malabo, Bioko Norte, Equatorial Guinea
Cause of deathExecution by firing squad
Political partyUnited National Workers' Party
SpouseMarguerita Nauzy[1]
RelativesÁngel Masié Ntutumu (brother)
Military service
Allegiance Francoist Spain
Branch/serviceColonial Guard of Spanish Guinea
Years of service1948–1950

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

Biography

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

In 1941, he was sponsored by Enrique Nvo [es].[2] 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.[2]

After the independence of Equatorial Guinea from Francoist Spain, he served since October 1968 as President of the Provincial Council [es][4] and since July 1971 as civil governor of Río Muni.[2][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 1976 coup attempt [es].[9][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]

References

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  1. ^ Liniger-Goumaz, Max (1979). La Guinee Equatoriale. Un pays méconnu (in French). L´ Harmattan. p. 204. ISBN 9782858021321. Retrieved 31 January 2024.
  2. ^ a b c d Liniger-Goumaz, Max (1979). La Guinee Equatoriale. Un pays méconnu (in French). L´ Harmattan. pp. 197–198. ISBN 9782858021321. Retrieved 31 January 2024.
  3. ^ Santiago Calvo, María Jesús (2013). APROXIMACIÓN A LA NARRATIVA CONTEMPORÁNEA GUINEOECUATORIANA EN ESPAÑOL (PDF) (in Spanish). p. 9. Retrieved 31 January 2024.
  4. ^ (in Spanish) Revista La Guinea Ecuatorial, número 1.630, octubre-noviembre de 1968, página 24, Depósito Legal: F.P.-10-1959 (PDF).
  5. ^ "JUICIO Y MUERTE DE MACIAS – Historia de Guinea" (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 27 September 2021. Retrieved 31 January 2024.
  6. ^ "España y Guinea firman un acuerdo comercial" (in Spanish). ABC. 28 July 1971. Retrieved 31 January 2024.
  7. ^ "Sobre la verdad histórica de Guinea Ecuatorial" (in Spanish). 1 March 2017. Retrieved 31 January 2024.
  8. ^ Nze Nfumu, Agustín (2006). "Macías, Verdugo o Víctima" (in Spanish). Lulu Press, Incorporated. ISBN 978-1-4116-8324-2. Retrieved 31 January 2024.
  9. ^ a b "Macías justificaba los asesinatos por apaleamientos como "suicidios"" (in Spanish). El País. 9 August 1979. Retrieved 31 January 2024.
  10. ^ Nze Nfumu, Agustín (2006). Macias, Verdugo O Victima (in Spanish). Lulu Press, Incorporated. ISBN 9781411683242. Retrieved 31 January 2024.
  11. ^ Coalición CORED (2010). "LISTE GÉNÉRALE ALPHABÉTIQUE DES PERSONNES ASSASSINÉES EN GUINÉE ÉQUATORIALE" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 11 April 2017. Retrieved 31 January 2024.
Political offices
Preceded by Vice President of Equatorial Guinea
1974–1976
Vacant
1976–1978
Title next held by
Bonifacio Nguema Esono Nchama