Nigerian music producer Solomon Oyeniyi, popularly known as K-Solo, has attributed the prevalence of internet fraud (“Yahoo”) and online sex marketing (“hook-up”) cultures in Nigeria to women, particularly mothers. In a recent interview with Arise TV, K-Solo expressed his views on the role women play in enabling these vices.
K-Solo highlighted the normalization of “hook-up” culture in Nigeria:
“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.”
He stressed that the problem begins at home, placing significant blame on mothers:
“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.”
K-Solo shared a personal anecdote to illustrate his point:
“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.”
He criticized the involvement of mothers in the early days of internet fraud in Nigeria:
“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.”
K-Solo also called on female celebrities and advocates to take a stand against these vices:
“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.”
