By the mid 1960s the public service was floundering, first and above all else because of the political factor: centralisation of political power followed in the wake of the Independence Constitution of 1957 and was quickened under the First Republican Constitution of 1960, and with this development went increasing political interference in the management of the public services. After the coup of 1966 there came a series of reports of which the Mills-Odoi and Siriboe Reports have direct relevance to the matter of decentralisation. The salient decentralisation points of both reports (i.a. the District Authority and the Regional Authority) are discussed in the article. The machinery for implementation of these points recommended by the Mills-Odoi Report was set up by the National Liberation Council and is situated under the government of Prime Minister Busia, but the situation regarding decentralisation is not altogether clear. The Constitution, however, is some guide to the future. Notes; table.
