Dr NANA ABOUBAKAR DJALLOH is from Ngaoundéré in the Adamawa region. This trained doctor served as Secretary of State to the Minister of Transport from 1998 to 2004, when he was appointed Minister Delegate to the Minister of Environment and Nature Protection (MINEP). He has been in this post since 2012 when the ministry became the Ministry of the Environment, Nature Protection and Sustainable Development (MINEPDED).