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Sex workers<\/p>\n

By Amah<\/p>\n

Kindly share:<\/p>\n

The Nigeria Police Force has linked many cases of missing young women to ritual practices, with a growing connection to the rising hook-up culture in the country.<\/p>\n

The Public Relations Officer of the Ogun State Command, Omolola Odutola, revealed this, yesterday, when she was featured on Channels Television\u2019s Morning Brief.<\/p>\n

During the discussion on \u201cHookup Culture: Impact on Youth Values and Relationships,\u201d Odutola revealed that young women aged 20 to 32 were the most affected.<\/p>\n

She added that many young people, especially males, believe that ritual killings was a way to become wealthy.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis particular menace is very serious and I will 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.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn-depth investigations also reveal that those cases are not by accidents. Most of them are connected to hookup 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.<\/p>\n

\u201cMost cases of missing girls and ritual killings occurring in Ogun State of recent, I will 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.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt 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.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThat is why we are having advocacy and sensitization, to enlighten young persons to make them understand that engaging in ritual killings does not in any way make them rich,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

She stated that the police command was collaborating closely with the state Women Affairs Commission to tackle and curb the menace. Vanguard<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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