 He remained Director of State Protocol after President Ahmadou Ahidjo was succeeded by Paul Biya in 1982, eventually leaving the post in 1989.Beleoken taught at the International Relations Institute of Cameroon until he was appointed as Director of the Civil Cabinet of the Presidency of the Republic on 16 June 2005, replacing Edgar Alain Mebe Ngo'o.After four years in that post, he was appointed to the government as Minister of State Property and Land Reform on 30 June 2009.