A militant of the National Liberation Movement (Movimiento Nacional de Liberación de Guinea Ecuatorial; MONALIGE),[1][2] Masié Ntutumu was appointed Minister of the Interior[3] by President Francisco Macías Nguema after the Independence of Equatorial Guinea [es],[2] holding office until 1973.[citation needed] The following year he was appointed Minister of National Security, Deputy Minister of Health, and Presidential Secretary. He is considered to have been responsible for some repressive incidents on Bioko Island in 1974.[4] In 1976 he fell into disgrace and went into exile in Spain.[3]
He was a member of the Chamber of Deputies for the Democratic Party of Equatorial Guinea (Partido Democrático de Guinea Ecuatorial; PDGE).[8] Later he went over to the opposition and joined the Popular Union party, forming part of its National Political Council.[9] His work resulted in him being arrested in 1991 and 1993.[10]
^"Golpe de Estado en Guinea" [Coup d'État in Guinea]. Mediterráneo (in Spanish). No. 12745. Castellón. 7 August 1979. p. 2. Retrieved 2 November 2017 – via Biblioteca Virtual de Prensa Histórica.
^"Guinea Ecuatorial". Red EuroSur (in Spanish). Instituto de Estudios Políticos para América Latina y África. Archived from the original on 19 May 2004. Retrieved 2 November 2017.