Marafa’s wife dies, buried in Paris, France
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| Marafa Yaya and his wife Jeannette Marafa |
Jeannette Marafa, the wife of Marafa Hamidou Yaya, jailed
former Secretary General at the Presidency of the Republic who died on Friday
25 August in Paris has been buried in France, The Median has learnt from
usually reliable sources.
A
relative of the late Jeannette Marafa quoted by our sources as admitting that
she consented to the idea of Mrs Marafa being interred in a cemetery in Paris,
France according to Muslim tradition.
The
sources also indicated that in her will, Jeannette Marafa reportedly ordered
that in the event of her death she be buried in Paris, France and that “When my
husband gets out of prison he will exhume my body and bury me in Garoua in
northern Cameroon.”
Jeannette
Marafa maintained during her lifetime that her husband, Marafa Hamidou Yaya, is
innocent and was only imprisoned for political reasons.
Marafa,
who is also a former Special adviser to president Biya and former Minister of
State in charge of Territorial Administration and Decentralization, is being
held in a secondary prison at the Gendarmerie Headquarters, SED, in Yaounde,
after he was sentenced to 20 years in prison over his involvement in the
botched purchase of a presidential plane, the Albatross.
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