 After completing high school, he briefly worked in The Gambia before he relocated to the United States as an economic migrant alongside his brother Yusupha Badjie.While in the United States, he lived in Seattle where he worked in home healthcare and Ohio where he worked as a laborer in a warehouse before returning to the Gambia.Due to his fathers connections to Yahya Jammeh, he was able to join the intelligence service and became Deputy Director General for Operations before being promoted to lead the NIA as Director-General in 2013.