THE DISENGAGEMENT PARADOX: What caught my fancy while I was eavesdropping in the morning of Friday the 29th of November, 2019 was the christening of the day as the “Black Friday” in the annals of the history of this our budding and great citadel of learning. My spontaneous guess was that of a sudden bereavement but nay, five members of staff carrying the cream colour envelopes with KU logo gave me their disengagement letters to peruse. Flipping through, I noticed they had each sojourned here for between 3-4years. Right there on the spot I got to know they are ten in number served with similar letters and happened to be pioneer members. I honestly have no problem with our employer as “they” reserve the prerogative to hire and fire. Hiring and firing could expediently be precipitated during a management transitional period (like the impending one) in the life of an organization but such has to have an human face. I have no intention to insinuate or lay blame at anyone’s doorstep here and no one should help me concoct any semblance of such scenario. I simply find it paradoxical that our faith-based institution would not give soft landing to this crop of pioneering staff that management had praised severally in my presence as having sacrificed a lot in nurturing the system to this enviable status. My plea is that for fairness sake and unless those being disengaged had been found wanting for one misdemeanor or the other, the staffs in question should be given the leeway to officially resign/write to voluntarily withdraw their services so they can at least make reference to having worked somewhere for the years spent here. As it were, none of them would be able to lay claim to any stint at Kings University and the time spent here automatically becomes cheer period of careers interregnum. He who made the pencil made the eraser. To those of us in academics, it is not yet Uhuru.
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