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For more than two decades, Cándido Nsue Okomo sat at the top table of Equatorial Guinea’s oil state. He was the general director of GEPetrol, the national oil company, when foreign oil executives were dealing with Malabo at the height of the boom, and when he was moved out of the top job in 2015, the presidency did not send him away. It named him a secretary of state in the April 2015 government, a ministerial appointment that kept him inside the machine. What the company filings now show, however, is that his seat in London never moved at all. The registry in Britain still carries his name as an active director of the national oil company’s UK-registered foreign company, a posting he has held since 16 July 2004, twenty-two years and counting, long after he ceased to run GEPetrol.
The company is COMPANIA NACIONAL DE PETROLEOS DE GUINEA ECUATORIAL, filed with Companies House as a UK establishment of a foreign company under number FC024489. It is GEPetrol’s London footprint, and the officer roll reads like an old-guard board of the Equatoguinean oil state. Alongside Okomo sit Miguel Angel Ondo Angue, secretary since 17 April 2003; Cristobal Manana Ela, director since the same day; Gabriel Nguema Lima, director since 17 April 2003; and Juan Mba Nseng Olo, director since 17 April 2003. A fifth director, Domingo Mba Esono, appointed that same April day in 2003, resigned on 18 February 2004. In July of that year, Okomo joined, born April 1977, Equatorial Guinean, correspondence address given as Calle Acacio Mane 39, PO Box 965, Malabo. Every one of the remaining officers is still listed as active, and the latest filings show Okomo’s directorship still current, with identity verification against his name falling due on 1 October 2026 under Britain’s new corporate transparency rules. The filings do not say why a man who left the chief executive role in 2015 stayed on the London board for a further eleven years, or what he does there now.
The company’s establishment address is recorded as Flat 410, Clive Court, Maida Vale, London W9 1SF, in the name of Bonifacio Monsuy Nsue, per aggregator records, it is only the registered establishment address of the company, and nothing more can be read into it. No suggestion is made that Okomo owns, occupies or has any interest in the flat.
Okomo is not a distant figure in Malabo. Public profiles describe him as the younger brother of Constancia Mangue Nsue Okomo, the First Lady of Equatorial Guinea, which makes him the brother-in-law of President Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo, and he was at the centre of some of the country’s most public business dealings, including the ownership of Air Annobón, the domestic airline that flew between Bata and Malabo. But it is the Companies House record that adds the unreported dimension, because a foreign directorship held by a man at that level of the state is exactly the kind of interest that Equatorial Guinea’s own law says must be declared.
Equatorial Guinea’s Law No. 4 of 2021 is unusually explicit about this. Article 9(2)(p) requires directors and senior officials of state-owned enterprises to file sworn asset declarations, and Article 11, items 7 to 10, spells out that those declarations must include holdings in unlisted companies, rights in companies established in the country or abroad whether in terms of management or capital, membership of boards of directors whether remunerated or honorary, and account balances whether domestic or foreign. A 22-year directorship of a UK-registered company by a former general director of the national oil company is precisely the kind of interest the statute demands be put on paper, and deliberate omission carries a fine of half the value of the undeclared assets under Article 15(e), plus criminal liability under Article 15A.
Whether Okomo declared this directorship, no member of the public can know. The declarations are public by statute, but the authorities suspended publication around 2022, as the IMF reported in its 2025 staff reporting, so the register that would answer the question sits behind a closed door. That suspension is itself part of the story: the law poses the question of whether a foreign board seat was ever declared, and the suspension means the public is barred from checking the answer. This report does not allege non-declaration, and it alleges no wrongdoing, it records that the Companies House filings, examined by ReportsNG, show a foreign directorship that has never been disclosed on the public record, and that the law plainly covers it.
The numbers on the board tell their own story about how long the arrangement has lasted. Okomo was appointed to the London company in 2004, a year after GEPetrol’s founding generation of directors was put in place, and he has now outlasted his own executive tenure at the parent company by more than a decade. Britain’s registry, through no judgment of its own, simply records what it is given: that on 16 July 2004, a 27-year-old Malabo oil executive took a seat on a London company’s board, and that nobody has filed anything since to say he left it. The inference, and it is only inference, because the filings do not explain it, is that the London directorship survived the 2015 restructuring that ended his general directorship and his elevation to secretary of state, and quietly carried on into the present.
What remains is a simple, documented fact with an unresolved question attached. The filings show the seat. The law of his own country says men like him must declare seats like this. And the public register that would show whether he did has been kept shut since 2022. Until it opens, the oldest-serving name on GEPetrol’s London board is also the least explained.
Read this report in Spanish: https://secretsreporter.com/2026/10/exclusiva-el-exdirector-general-de-gepetrol-de-guinea-ecuatorial-candido-nsue-okomo-sigue-ocupando-la-direccion-en-londres-que-asumio-en-2004/
