Background
A member of the Mbochi ethnic group, Mboulou was born at Mpouya, located in the Plateaux Region of Congo-Brazzaville.
A member of the Mbochi ethnic group, Mboulou was born at Mpouya, located in the Plateaux Region of Congo-Brazzaville.
Previously, he was Secretary-General of the Presidency from May 2007 to December 2007. He earned a degree from the Center for Financial, Economic and Banking Studies in Paris and became a state inspector in 1982. Afterwards he held various other positions in the civil service over the years.
In the 1992 parliamentary election and the 1993 parliamentary election, he was elected to the National Assembly as a candidate in Mpouya constituency.
After Denis Sassou Nguesso returned to power in October 1997, Mboulou served as Director-General of the Control of Markets and State Contracts from 1998 to 2002. After the election, he was Head of the Cabinet of Aimé Emmanuel Yoka, the Director of the Presidential Cabinet, from 2002 to 2007.
Mboulou was then appointed as Secretary-General of the Presidency of the Republic, with the rank of Minister, on 15 May 2007. After the election, he was appointed to the government as Minister of Territorial Administration and Decentralization on 30 December 2007.
As Minister of Territorial Administration, Mboulou announced the provisional results of the 12 July 2009 presidential election on 15 July 2009.
Those results showed incumbent President Denis Sassou Nguesso winning another term with 78.61% of the vote. Mboulou also placed the turnout rate at 66%, although that was strongly contested by the opposition, which had boycotted the election and claimed that the turnout rate was anemic. Following the election, Sassou Nguesso retained Mboulou in the government as Minister of the Interior and Decentralization in a cabinet reshuffle on 15 September 2009.
Mboulou was retained in his post as Minister of the Interior and Decentralization in the post-election government named on 25 September 2012.
On 11 September 2014, a day before the beginning of campaigning for the 28 September 2014 local elections, Mboulou called for the campaign to proceed peacefully in a tolerant and respectful atmosphere.