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Public service is inherited from the colonial administration and the focus is directed to quality service delivery where public interest is the primary function of recruitment. Civil and public servants are government employees as insiders who have the secrets of revenues and expenditures of the government. The author, Abdulateef Amusa, wrote ‘nation must help them to have the public interest over their personal interests. The public interest is the national or overall interest. Every personal interest is a subset in a national or public interest. Once the national interest is met, the interest of the working civil and public servants including others in the private pursuits has been totally taken care of. The two, civil and public servants by their primary constitutional functions, are the inevitable engines sustaining any nation. If they failed, the nation has failed. A nation failed when the security institution crashed, the economy has crumbled, social services are in comatose, the social infrastructures are in deficits and corruption is the order of the day. By facts, no nation can develop with the selfish and corrupt civil and public servants. Nations require the patriotic, nationalistic and selfless civil and public servants to become great. Both must see their services as a call to serve the nation and not for self-aggrandizements’. Both are remunerated from the coffers of the nation but are unpatriotic and selfish in the poor nations of the world. By records and style of living, there are government employees that are richer than the nation simply because they are looting the treasury for private use. Both have inputs at different levels and approaches towards building the nation in all facets. The civil servants are engaged to work for statutory years in the office before retirement unlike the public servants that have no specific time. There are no ends to legislation in the legislature unlike the executives that have maximum tenure in office by the provisions in the national constitution. The official duties synergy of the civil and public servants is inevitably needed to lift the nation from poverty to prosperity. Unfortunately, in many impoverished nations in Africa, as a case study, the public sectors or the corporations like the national carrier, national telecommunication corporation, the railway, the refineries and others that are either privatized or moribund have corrupt civil servants working in collaboration with the corrupt and selfish public servants to wreak havocs on the national assets. The crude oil refineries are not working simply because their non-operational status satisfies their selfish or the interests of the government employees as well as their sponsors to the offices. If the nation loses billions of taxes and other receipts, the civil and public servants are culpable by revelations. In the book from the author titled ‘Debts and Borrowing..’, it is concisely illustrated that the indigent nations have no reason for borrowing to avoid mortgaging the future of the citizens with dedicated and selfless service of the civil and public servants. By random estimation, the civil and public servants are the beneficiaries of the transactions in all forms even in the signing of fraudulent contracts at the peril of the nation. And the citizens who have no access suffer having paying dearly for the incompetence of the government employees which damage control by the stooges and aides of the government in the civil and public service may not put right in the minds of the citizens. By deliberate impositions of unfriendly economic policies, the organized private sectors are crippled by the inputs such as the policies being reeled out and impose on the organized private sectors. With reformation, reorganization, rewards and other R’s postulated to have vibrant and patriotic civil and public servants, they would take responsibilities and put the nations in the path of greatness. This is a prized asset in book