[5] Habada joined the Royal West African Frontier Force (RWAFF) in 1945, and a year later, he was made instructor of the Sierra Leone Army.
[6] In 1959, he was commissioned officer in the second Battalion, and served under Emmanuel Kwasi Kotoka as the Commander Pay Master of the Headquarters Company.
He also worked as the Mechanical Transport Officer of the 2nd Battalion and the Ghana Military Academy and Training School.
He later became the Deputy Adjutant, and the Quarter Master General of the Ghana Military Academy and Training School.
Following the 1966 overthrow of the Nkrumah government, Habada became a member of the Volta Regional Committee of Administration.