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m any civil servants entered the service with little or no training.
A knowledge of m inute writing, the Civil Service Act, and office
routine, was about all the practical training they had experi­
enced.
We have now achieved our aim of building up a Ghanaian
civil service able to administer the country efficiently, and I
would like my brothers in the emerging states of this continent
to know that G hana stands ready to help them in their initial
stages of self-government. O ur civil service is at their disposal.
We can lend them top officials to start their ministries, we can
send them instructors to train their own indigenous civil service.
It is a problem whose complexity they will discover only with
the departure of the colonial power. It would indeed be a boon
to all the new African states if those of us who have enjoyed a
somewhat longer period of independence were to make available
some of our officials to form a kind of African civil service pool,
standing at the service of emerging African states and ready to
serve the new Union of African States.