Prof. Festus Iyayi in his book Violence published in 1986.

`In my understanding, acts of violence are committed when a man is denied the opportunity of being educated, of getting a job, of feeding himself, and his family properly, of getting medical attention cheaply, quickly and promptly.

We often do not realize that it is the society, the type of economic and hence the political system which we are operating in our country today, that brutalizes the individual, rapes his manhood.

We often do not realize that when such men of poor and limited opportunities react, they are only in certain measure, returning violence with violence.

What I would like to see, however, is not just for a handful of men to take up arms to rob one individual.

I feel and think it is necessary, that all oppressed sections of our community ought to...The system has already proved that it operates through violence.`