“In essence these religious cults were a way of stopping anybody from becoming too powerful. Bohannan explains this as: Men who had acquired too much power … were whittled down by means of witchcraft accusations… Nyambua was one of a regular series of movements to which Tiv political action, with its distrust of power, gives rise to that the greater political institutions – the one based on the lineage system and a principle of egalitarianism – can be preserved.”