A. O. Mills

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Adjebu-Kojo Osah Mills
Establishment Secretary of Ghana
In office
1961–1967
Appointed byKwame Nkrumah
Preceded byDavid Anderson
Succeeded byJoe D. Laryea
Personal details
BornAccra, Gold Coast
NationalityGhanaian
EducationAccra Academy
Occupationcivil servant

Adjebu-Kojo Osah Mills was a Ghanaian civil servant. He served as principal secretary to the Establishment Secretariat of Ghana from October 1961, succeeding David Anderson, the British who served doubly as establishment secretary and head of the civil service. He served in this capacity until November 1967. He was the only Ghanaian to be head of the establishment secretariat during the republican government of Kwame Nkrumah and the third Ghanaian officeholder after R.K.A. Gardiner and A.L. Adu. During his time at the establishment secretariat, he played a central role in implementing the Africanisation programme of senior civil service posts.[1][2]

Early life and education[]

Osah Mills was born in August 1918 in Accra.[3] He had his early education at the Accra Royal School from 1925 to 1934, and proceeded to the Accra Academy for his secondary education from 1935 to 1938.[3]

Career[]

Osah Mills begun his career as a clerk in 1935.[3] In June 1939 Osah-Mills joined the colonial civil service as a second division clerk within the registry of the Department of Education. In December 1949 he was promoted to senior executive officer. In November 1954, he became an administrative officer. Some ministries he served in include the ministry of housing and the ministry of works.[4] By 1960, he moved to the Establishment Secretariat.[5] He became the acting director of recruitment (overseas) from January 1961 to May 1961.[3] Osah Mills was appointed Principal Secretary for the Establishment Secretariat on 1 October 1961.[3] He reported directly to the president's office and coordinated matters of personnel policy and control. He served in this capacity until November 1967. In December 1967, however, he was sent to the Office of the National Liberation Council as second in succession to the cabinet secretary.[6] In 1968, he was reassigned to the ministry of defense as principal secretary with the military head of government, Joseph Ankrah having ministerial charge of the ministry. He lost his post in the administrative service in 1970 in the second Ghanaian republic.[7] This was due to a dismissal action taken and argued by the Busia government as being supported by the 1969 constitutional provisions in which he and the most senior officials of state-owned media organisations which include editor of the Daily Graphic, Nicholas Alando, general manager of the Ghana Broadcasting Corporation, Matthias Ofori and the director-general of the Ghana Broadcasting Corporation,William Frank Coleman were cited by West Africa (magazine) to be the most notable affected public officers.[8]

Personal life[]

Osah Mills' hobbies included reading.[3] Through a marriage, that lasted sixty-two years, he had eight children.[9]

References[]

  1. ^ West Africa. Afrimedia International. 1967.
  2. ^ Commission, Ghana Constitutional (1968). The Proposals of the Constitutional Commission for a Constitution for Ghana. State Publishing Corporation, Print. Division.
  3. ^ a b c d e f "Ghana Year Book". Graphic Corporation: 318. 1964.
  4. ^ Ghana Gazzette, 1955. Ghana.
  5. ^ Ghana Gazzette, 1960. Ghana.
  6. ^ Ghana Gazzette, 1970. Ghana. p. 790.
  7. ^ Colin Legum (1971). "Africa Contemporary Record: Annual Survey and Documents, Volume 3". Africana Publishing Company. p. 347.
  8. ^ West Africa, Issues 2744-2768. West Africa Publishing Company Limited, 1970. p. 270.
  9. ^ Simon Ontoyin. Accra Aca Bleoo:The History of the Accra Academy from James Town to Bubiashie. Sub-Saharan Publishers, 2021.
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