Marafa Hamidou Yaya gets 25 years for jet purchase scam

A court on Saturday jailed former Cameroon minister Marafa Hamidou Yaya for 25 years for embezzling $29 million dollars intended as a downpayment on a presidential jet. Marafa, the ex-minister of territorial administration and decentralisation, was sentenced along with three others who also received the same sentence, including the former head of the now defunct [...]