Barely one week after the gruesome beheading of over 43 farmworkers in Borno State, the Chief of Army Staff, Lt. Gen. Tukur Buratai has announced the commencement of a golf tournament in Abuja.
According to the COAS, who himself is a native of the Boko Haram-ravaged state, the tourney will commence on Friday, running through Saturday and Sunday.
As part of the three-day event, he revealed that the TYB International Golf Resort and Country Club will be launched.
The venue is the TYB-IGRCC Shehu Yar’Adua Barracks Asokoro.
Nigeria’s Army chief is a known golf lover and turns to the affluent sports for recreation.
He believes the game is another form of military training, which could help the Nigerian Army personnel in tackling the current insecurity in Nigeria.
“The game of golf is all about ethics and tradition just as the Nigeria Army. It is a game that brings people of all works of life together,” he said last year.
“I always tell people that no game can surpass golf because the game has nothing to do with age.”
However, the timing of the tournament has raised eyebrows especially after the murder of farmworkers in Borno.
The sad incident, which the Abubakar Shekau-led Boko Haram faction has claimed responsibility is one of the worst attacks in recent months.
