Women are to be blamed for ‘Yahoo’, ‘hook-up’ cultures – K-Solo

• K-solo claimed that mothers enable their children to be involved in hook-up and yahoo.
• He said celebrities also played a role by negatively influencing the youth.

Renowned music producer, Solomon Oyeniyi, aka K-Solo, has ignited a heated debate by attributing the rise of internet fraud popularly known as ‘yahoo’ and hook-up in Nigeria to women.

In a recent Arise TV interview, K-Solo asserted that mothers play a significant role in enabling their children’s involvement in these vices.

He shared a personal story about encountering a young girl, possibly 16 or 17, heading out, and overheard her mother encouraging her behavior.

K-Solo expressed concerns about the normalization of “hook-up culture” in Nigeria, likening it to ordering food.

He also criticized celebrities for their negative influence on the youth, highlighting the need for guidelines and regulations.

In his words:

“Hook-up in Nigeria is now like ordering food. It’s almost normal. They even defend it by saying it happens abroad. But I think there should be rules guiding it.

“A lot is backed from the underground. The people who can help from the home side are the women; the mothers. I’m sorry, but mothers are the biggest disasters. There was a day when my car broke down on the road and I saw a young girl, she should be like 16 or 17, and she was going out. I heard the mother tell her in Yoruba to bring something back. I confronted the mother, asking where her child works because she was dressed so fine and looked too good to be going to the office in that dress. She couldn’t answer.

“I looked at the mother and said, ‘By look, I’m older than you. What are you doing at home that you’re telling that poor girl to bring something home?’ Now, let me quickly add this again, when Yahoo started in Nigeria, it was the mothers who were picking up the fraud proceeds from the bank. This shouldn’t sound like I’m talking from a book. It’s what has been happening.

“The day mothers and female advocates start speaking against these vices more, there will be a lot of changes. The day female celebrities who flaunt their luxurious lifestyles on the internet come out and let girls know how they hustle on the fields, a lot of young girls will go back to the drawing board.”