She took up a job in the Social Welfare department at Tamale (the capital of the Northern Region) after school.
She left civil service to work as a regional woman organizer for the United Ghana Farmers' Council (UGFC), a group under the Convention People's Party (CPP).
In 2003, she appeared before the National Reconciliation Commission requesting that her two houses and a car that were seized after the first republic government was overthrown be returned to her.
She explained that the Azu Crabbe commission had exonerated her however the then military government went on to confiscate her assets.
She further added that she sent a letter to the PNDC government about her plight and she was directed to the Confiscated Assets Committee.