The wife of disgraced former Minister Marafa Hamidou Yaya has passed away in the French capital, Paris. Jeannette Marafa reportedly took ill in 2016 immediately after her husband was caught in the pangs of the monster he created.

Family sources revealed that she left French Cameroun territory on Friday, August 25, 2017 for a regular medical check in Paris.

The wife of the former Minister of State in charge of Territorial Administration and Decentralization spent her last days on earth fighting for the release of her 65-year-old sick husband.

The former Biya acolyte was sentenced to 20 years in prison and he is being held in a cell at the Secretariat for Defense, SED in Yaoundé since April 2012. The late Jeannette Marafa was a mother of three.

By Chi Prudence Asong