Originally from Tiringoulou and a Gula,[1] Ndodeba began his career as a guard for the Northern Region Development Program (PDRN) in 1997.
When he worked as a guard, he gained military and tracking training from French, Swiss, American, and British trainers.
[2] In April 2006, an unknown airplane landed at Tiringoulou airstrip, prompting the government to send Presidential Guard to the town, and they attacked the residents as well as burned houses.
[3] Ndodeba joined UFDR because he felt dismayed by the Ministry of Water and Forest's decision to choose only the trackers from Bangui and the surrounding area.
[4] He and his group launched an attack in Birao at the end of October 2006 and managed to seize the weapons from the government forces.
[2] Ndodeba returned to his hometown, and an American medical charity appointed him as the local children's rights advocate.