Former Vice President of Nigeria, Atiku Abubakar has sacked over 400 staff from one of his conglomerate, few days after sacking 56 staff of Gotel Communication, on Workers Day.
This time, the sack affected staffs of one of his subsidiary, the American University of Nigeria based in Yola, Adamawa state, which announced the sacking of the 400 staff of the University.
President of AUN, Dawn Dekle, who signed the sack letters stated that the university no longer required the services of the affected staff.
Some of the disengaged workers said that they were fired without severance benefits despite serving the university for about 10 years.
However, Vice President, University Relations of the institution, Abubakar Abba Tahir, denied the allegation.
He said, “Ask them to show you their disengagement letters.
“Until now, AUN has operated a student-staff ratio which balance had continued to affect the sustainability of the university
“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.
“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 had 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.”
