Police Blame Spate Of Missing Persons Cases On ‘Hook Up’

‘Hook up’ which involves a casual sex or relationship between a man and a woman, is responsible for the spate of missing person cases in the country especially the young women, the police have submitted.

Team@orientactualmags.com learned that spokesperson for Ogun State police Command, Omolola Odutola said this while appearing on Channels Television’s ‘Morning Brief’ programme on Wednesday.

During the discussion that centered on ‘Hookup Culture: Impact on Youth Values and Relationships’ Odutola noted that young women between the ages of 20 and 32 are the most affected.

‘This particular menace is very serious and I would like a lot of young people to understand the danger in the hookup culture. Today, we have lots of reports of missing persons. By the time we start an investigation, not less than 10 young girls and ladies go missing daily.

In-depth investigations also revealed that those cases are not by accidents. Most of them are connected to hook up channels and apps. They fall victim to strangers who causally invite them to unknown places and eventually fall victim to being used for ritual purposes.

Most cases of missing girls and ritual killings occurring in Ogun State of recent, I would like to say that it is not new. But as much as possible, the Ogun State Commissioner of Police has been able to tame these ugly incidents.

It stems from the ugly perspective of young persons who believe that ritual killing could enrich them. We have some of these unscrupulous elements who deceive young people to get human skulls or human body parts, which they use for some kind of concoction to get them rich.

 That is why we are having advocacy and sensitization, to enlighten young people to make them understand that engaging in ritual killings does not in any way make them rich’ she said.

Odutola also said the state police command is collaborating closely with the Women Affairs Commission, Ogun State to tackle the issue.

‘The Ogun State government, particularly the Women Affairs Commission works in tandem with the police command by providing counseling sessions.

Apart from that, whenever we have cases such as this if per adventure the girls escape the rituals, we also have a proper way of helping them go through the distress of mental health and anxiety they might have felt during the incident.

The hook up culture is prevalent among young girls between the ages of 20 and 32 years. The reason they get involved in this menace is because they feel they don’t get enough from their parents, and then the get-rich syndrome’ she added.

While a date is an interaction that may lead to a series of future dates or marriage, a hook up is an interaction you enter into without expectations or intention that there will be a future interaction.

Hook up is a gateway to a coded industry for sex. It involves a casual sex or relationship that is devoid of emotional attachment or long-term commitment like one-night stand-Team@orientactualmags.com  Do you have any information you wish to share with us? Do you want us to cover your event or programme? Kindly send SMS to 08059100286, 09094171980 or get in touch via orientactualmag@gmail.com.  Thank you