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Marafa’s wife dies, buried in Paris, France

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.