17/04/2021
I'm deeply touched and inspired by this responsibility bestowed on me. With boundless gratitude for the confidence placed in me by the members, and with an unswerving resolve to honor that trust, I humbly accept the appointment as the Chairman of this great association, our Birch Old Students Association (BOSA.) I wish to extend my deepest respect and appreciation to all the members
Thank you, bro Sisto, for graciously preparing and guiding the meeting today. I greatly look forward to working with the entire membership of BOSA.
I follow in a line of remarkable leaders before me. They had also faced this moment, each at a critical juncture in the Association's history. Like myself today, they must have pondered what the years ahead would hold at the helm of this dynamic association. Each made important and lasting contributions to our common enterprise in upholding BOSA's deepest values and highest aspirations.
I resolve to build upon your legacy.
Distinguished memebers,
By completing the appointment of the next Chairman with such alacrity, you have opened an unprecedented opportunity. I will use these weeks to consult widely on how best to proceed with our common agenda of reform and revitalization. I will listen attentively to your concerns, expectations and admonitions.
Distinguished members,
I am deeply honored to become the old student with a diaspora orientation to lead the Association. It is quite fitting that you have now turned to someone with western world orientation to guide the Association. Having come so far and rising still, BOSA is living and shaping the full range of achievements and challenges of our current times.
BOSA also an Association where modesty is a virtue. But the modesty is about demeanor, not about vision and goals. It does not mean the lack of commitment or leadership. Rather, it is quiet determination in action to get things done without so much fanfare. Given the enduring purposes and inspiring principles of our Association,
