Previous falls from grace by close associates of the President have been quick and brutal such as that in 2010 of close advisor and minister Marafa Hamidou who was sentenced to 25 years in prison in 2012 and has been there ever since despite several public pleas for mercy (AC Vol 53 No 16 Biya swings the axe)...
Former RDPC barons Marafa Hamidou Yaya the former State Minister in charge of Territorial Administration and Jean-Marie Atangana Mebara the former Secretary-General of the Presidency were suspected of nurturing presidential ambitions in 2011 and now both are in prison with scant prospect of release (AC Vol 53 No 16 Biya swings the axe & Vol 49 No 24 Biya's grip)...
The disgraced Territorial Administration and Decentralisation Minister Marafa Hamidou Yaya who was for years a high flying northern fixer for Biya was sentenced to 25 years for embezzlement of funds allocated for the purchase of a presidential jet – the issue that sank Fotso (AC Vol 54 No 16 Biya swings the axe)...
The two men were close to Marafa Hamidou Yaya the former high official now in prison for theft of public property (AC Vol 55 No 17 Ransom claims dog Biya)...
The article speculated that northerner Marafa Hamidou Yaya the former head of Biya's office who is now in prison serving a lengthy term for stealing from the state may be involved with other northern notables in attempting to use Boko Haram to bring Biya's reign to an end (AC Vol 53 No 12 Biya swings the axe)...
Biya's support needs shoring up since former Interior Minister Marafa Hamidou Yaya an ex-Secretary General at the Presidency and traditional northern leader received a 25-year prison sentence for embezzling public funds (AC Vol 53 No 16 Biya swings the axe)...
Keeping them guessing This is how former loyalists such as wealthy business owner Yves-Michel Fotso and former Presidency Minister Marafa Hamidou Yaya found themselves incarcerated say political sources (AC Vol 53 No 16 Biya swings the axe)...
In February 2010 Marafa Hamidou Yaya then Minister of Territorial Administration and Decentralisation confessed to the United States Ambassador Janet E...
Over two years later Marafa Hamidou is in the high security military prison of the State Secretariat for Defence and is on trial with other former high officials for the embezzlement of US$29 million originally earmarked for a presidential jet...
The current prosecution case of Marafa Hamidou Yaya former Minister of Territorial Administration and Decentralisation is believed to centre on the purchase of two elderly Boeings a 767 and a 747...