2024-11-14
7 分钟There is a particular kind of story that journalists have long characterized as too good to check the kind of yarn so perfectly delicious, so supernaturally succulent, that not even the most punctilious of reporters wants to be the person who picks up the phone to the informed and authoritative source who will tell them that it is, regrettably, bollocks.
One such has circulated for decades about Sukarno Mono, named first president of Indonesia, who served from 1945 to 1967.
Legend insists that during a visit to Moscow, the Soviets sought to construct kompromat with which to coerce Sukarno into their corner.
As the Cold War crackled, a honey trap was set.
A gaggle of young women dressed as flight attendants were dispatched to Sukarno's hotel room, and what subsequently transpired was recorded with hidden cameras.
However, when the triumphant KGB spooks who conceived the operation showed Sukarno the tapes, he merely proclaimed himself delighted and asked for copies.
All of which, true or not, is recalled by way of noting that the sex tape as a political weapon can be something of a double edged sword.
The people of Equatorial guinea and an exclusive but as of this week, swiftly swelling international cohort who pay much attention to the politics of Equatorial guinea are presently agog at footage of the exertions of the head of the country's corruption watchdog, the National Financial Investigation Agency, Balthazar Ibang Ngonga.
For it is he is the star of hundreds of videos featuring himself and dozens of women putting his office desk to uses other than those which the manufacturer intended.
Said videos are currently delighting African social media and pretty much writing the routines of African comedians and talk show hosts.
We need to talk about it.
Everybody, including myself, is beyond gagged about this story because what Equatorial Guinea?
Right now, all the husbands are looking for the 400 videos.
One man, 400 videos.
300 women.
We will at this point ask listeners to retreat from the edge of their seats somewhat while we fill in the context.
Trust us, it will be worth it.
Equatorial guinea is a small country in West Africa, and a geopolitical oddity in that most of its territory is on the continent of Africa, wedged in between Cameroon, Cameroon, and Gabon.
But the capital city, Malabo, is on an island called Bioko, in the Bight of Biafra, about 45 minutes away by air.
Equatorial guinea is hideously poor, but shouldn't be.