 Away from a dam our state moving into Kaduna, the Nigerian Defence Academy NDA has expressed its readiness to consolidate on the gains already achieved by boosting the physical fitness of personnel by investing in and prioritizing golf. The Academy's Commandant Major General Jona Chai gave the assurance at the NDA Golf Cutsy Tournament in Kaduna to induct the new and outgoing grand patron of the club. Major General Jona Chai, who was represented by Deputy Commandant of NDA, Vice-Marshal Sunday Asakere said the NDA Golf Game will be given optimum investment and priority to meet up with international standards. In the military we work hard so we tend to use golf as a means of recreation to ensure that after a hard day's work we come here relaxed. The Commandant has great plans for golf in the academy while it's taking part of the sternum. Golf will be taken to a different level for the period we're going to be here. If you check the number of steps you take while on a golf course it's almost equivalent to what you do out there. People have a tendency to underestimate the importance and how effective it is to play golf but you exercise every part of your body while also interacting with your colleagues so I will encourage all of us. By the time we're leaving NDA we intend to double the number of participants who take part in this game. Our intention is to leverage and continue whatever legacies they have left behind and I assure them that when they come here next time we will try and improve on whatever they left behind. A culture here for us to celebrate the outgoing for all they have done and encourage the incoming to take us to the next level. The captain of the club group Captain Ibrahim Moussa said no military personnel will succeed without physical training, fitness. Golf is not a lazy man's game as people think. By the time you go around the whole 18 holes you find out you've covered more distance that some people will even cover, jogging. It is a place where you interact, meet people of like minds, meet people high up, people low. How the golf course can interface is to act as an odd venue for non-personals to relax after having a strainer's day or going for combat operations and they come back they'll be able to sit down and relax properly. So the golf club is actually a very good place for personnel to unwind after they have a stressful day from the rigors of all the security challenges we're having in the country.