Peasant resistance against increased taxation and the 1964 Tiv revolt

There is hunger in the land. The youths are restless. Speaking in the soft, smooth, silky voice of a professional politician, at the 19th All Nigeria Editors’ Conference in Uyo, Nuhu Ribadu, the National Security Adviser, said “We have inherited a very difficult country, a bankrupt country, to the extent that we are paying back what was taken. It is serious.