Italy politically padded the civil service during UN trusteeship, leaving Somalia overstaffed

Evidence

While Mr. Hindle gives unstinted praise to the [Hussen] government, on several occasions in the past he has remarked that [Hussen] may be ahead of his time; i.e., too progressive for Somalia’s present state of political development… . Mr. Hindle stated that he has been working for long hours, at times until 4:00 am in private sessions with [Hussen], … on the reorganization of the Somali civil service. The task was difficult according to Hindle, because the civil service was more than doubled in the last two years of the UN Trusteeship Administration under Italy. Without further elucidation Hindle claimed that this was done for political reasons. As a result the GSR [government of the Somali Republic] has been saddled with the problem of an overstaffed civil service since independence. — Abdi Ismail Samatar, Africa’s First Democrats, 779

Categorization

• QUESTION: The source withholds details on what political ends Italy’s hiring served — worth chasing in other sources on the trusteeship period.