The reservations of history are to so many, a kind of bank where knowledge, not only of the good is stored, but also of vice. BAF.S.U has not been left out in this category of people who look into history to cut out the true sizes of their coats.
For over two decades BAF.S.U has come to be working on the line of laxity and merry making, where the blame has always been on the capabilities that for real were of our making. Bafaka Balue students have for so long not benefited from the natural largess of human knowledge, as leaders of the union had not taken it upon themselves to reproduce the underlying thoughts of their minds into material form.
The union had no doubts enjoyed a blissful era when such leaders like Delegate Itoe William, Eric Etongwe, Winnyawoko Motale and Ambrose Nanje were painstakingly trying to form the whole idea of a union. Their ideas were those of forming the basics of a united student body that would grow into a potential building entity for the Bafaka community. It is however sad to say that from the late 1990s, BAF.S.U has suffered in the hands of poor leadership that almost left the union in total ruins.
While this had been the rule in BAF.S.U for the past ten years, the students' union is however witnessing a new phase of things with the arrival of a new and spirited leadership. When he was sworn in for the first time as president on the 1st of January,2011 Blessed Efilo Wa Ngoe promised to make a good president if members of the union were going to be cooperative in the total emancipation of the union. His views on hard work and commitment as the sole means towards self-realization and his total refusal to succumb to corruption, led to his quarreling with LO.BA.S.A top executives and the plot against his office in August 2011. He was ousted against the wish of many from office by a few "powerful" members of the association, who feared that his policies were too harsh for a growing union.
His spirit was however in the veins of the led and his name and ideas kept lingering in the thoughts of the positively minded. Called back to service in December 2011, President Blessed Efilo Wa Ngoe restated his arguments of hard work and commitment, as the sole practical doctrine to lead the union through the hurdles it faced.
In effect, his initially proposed library and gardening projects were reestablished for 2012/2013. With the approval of both the traditional authority and the elite, the Students' Union has begun undertaking the projects. The gardening project in Bafaka Balue is already in process. The students at home and abroad have all pledged their commitment and support to the venture, which is believed will address the needs of both students and the community. The varieties on the ground are quite fascinating given that the Bafaka Balue community has been virtually unfamiliar to some of the vegetable species to be planted, though these had been age-long dream delicacies for these hill settlers.
It is therefore expected that through the efforts of BAF.S.U's new regime and line of action, the people of Bafaka Balue will certainly see the light long foretold in the words of leaders like the late P.L Itoe, J.E Eyalo, N.M.Itoe Nefenda, Chief Massa M. Moleke and the late Hon. Chief Massa M.M Mokube. The hope of the elite has also been raised as the chief, HRH Chief Dr A.J Mokube affirmed during the BAF.S.U end of year party in Bafaka that his trust is on the younger generation to bring Bafaka to deserving heights.
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