During a multisectoral meeting held on June 19, 2026 at the Malabo Palace, Equatorial Guinean Vice President Nguema Obiang Mangue temporarily suspended 519 maintenance contracts of service providers to public entities. This decision follows the reading of the report by Prime Minister Manuel Osa Nsue on the matter. The report reveals “failures of the General Directorate of maintenance and upkeep services of buildings owned by the State.” The Vice President of the Republic notably points out “the lack of control over companies providing services to state institutions.”
According to the report analyzing 519 maintenance lines, “233 lines were evaluated as satisfactory, 38 as unsatisfactory, and 63 as regular.” Furthermore, the Prime Minister’s document indicates that “53 lines correspond to services paid for by state subsidy, 55 lines are listed as non-existent, and 123 lines have received no feedback from ministries.”
For the Equatorial Guinean government, “the temporary measure taken during the meeting responds to the imposition of order and control over government expenses for these services.” Indeed, as stated in the article published on June 20, 2026 by the Press and Image Office of the Vice Presidency of the Republic on the presidential website, “the presented report highlights aspects such as irregular distribution of services, lack of information on contracted companies, payments outside established procedures, and non-compliance with contracts, among others.”
In response to this situation, the Vice President instructed “the reimbursement of funds received to the public Treasury by the owners of the companies.” Nguema Obiang Mangue also tasked the Prime Minister with “organizing and regularizing the entire sector; by canceling contracts of companies with unexecuted maintenance lines and maintaining those that have shown their commitment, after reviewing contracts and specifically designating the services to be provided in each ministry.”
