Nothing beats freedom – a submissions a pastor and former justice minister, Rubén Mangue in Equatorial Guinea, who was detained two years ago for calling the president a “demon”, has come to realise as true.
Mangue was released after being pardoned by President Teodoro Obiang Nguema who is currently Africa’s longest-serving ruler, having taken power in a coup in 1979.
Mangue was arrested for criticising Obiang in a widely shared audio recording in 2022, calling him “a demon… holding his people as prisoners”.
He refused to apologise to the head of state and was accused of provoking public disorder before he was barred from preaching.
Mangue is an ordained Pentecostal pastor and was justice minister from 1998 to 2004 when he was fired in a government shake-up by the president.
