Sequel to a long restructuring process, the American
University of Nigeria (AUN), Yola, Adamawa, has sacked 400 of its workers.
AUN is owned by former Vice President, Atiku Abubakar.
Prof. Abba Tahir, the Vice President for University
Relations, AUN, made the disclosure in a statement made available to newsmen in
Yola on Tuesday.
Tahir said that majority of the affected personnel were
those that had no significant developmental effect on the philosophy of the
university.
“Certain structural elements have been initiated by the new
Governing Council of American University of Nigeria (AUN), in response to NUC
requirements, mandating the institution to align with an approved governance
structure for all tertiary institutions in the country.
”Until now, AUN has operated a student-staff ratio which
balance had continued to affect the sustainability of the university.
”This is clearly an uncommon and hardly workable tradition
in all institutions and organisations around the world. Obviously it is
unattainable.
”Thus, consequent upon the university’s new governing
council vote to restructure the institution in line with its agenda for
sustainability, a process of workforce rationalisation has been in the
pipeline.
”It is now time for the university to look back, look around
and look ahead, to ensure that realistic and globally competitive
administrative practices can be achieved in structure, strategy and focus.
“It would not be realistic for AUN to continue to anchor its
administrative structure on an over-bloated personnel whose role do not have
significant effect on the philosophy of a development university,” he said.
The vice president for university relations further stated
that in the emerging sustainable structure, competitive personnel were
retained, while others were disengaged honourably.
He said that all those affected were paid all their
contractual benefits at the point of clearance, to continue with their lives
somewhere else.
Tahir said that as a typical American style institution, AUN
deliberately trained its students to search for sustainable solutions to human
development challenges.
”Students are deliberately armed with lifelong skills and
competencies to develop sustainable solutions to the myriad of challenges faced
by society.
”The challenges posed by the unsustainable redundancies in
AUN’s operational structure for the university is one that needed to be
addressed ever since,” Tahir said.
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