Stop Looking Down On Mentally Challenged People In Nigeria – Woli Arole

Popular comedian and actor, Woli Arole has come out to share his experience when he recently disguised as a mentally challenged man on the streets of Lagos.

The Instagram personality did this today to commemorate World Mental Health day.

According to him, amid his roaming about insanely and trying to engage some people, a man almost slapped his face.

He added that it is sad that several people look down on the mentally challenged in the society because there’s more we can collectively do for them in love.

His words, “I went on the street of Lagos dressed like a “Mentally ill” person, I saw the reaction of a lot of people, some people gave me money, some ran away from me, a guy nearly slapped me, then I realized that a lot of people look down on the “Mentally challenged” in the society, which is not too good there’s more we can collectively do in love.”

Our psychiatrist hospitals should be looked more into by the government. Some people are not even dressed like this physically, they look good and okay but they are going through “Mental illness” which includes Clinical depression, Anxiety disorder and Bipolar disorder and a whole lots. Please let’s take our “Mental State” seriously. Celebrating #worldmentalhealth2020″

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Woli Arole (born February 22, 1990) is a Nigerian comedian, actor and on-air personality. Professionally he is called Arole, Woli Arole.

Woli Arole was born in the city of Ibadan, Nigeria. He had his primary education in Olopade Agoro Apata, Ibadan, and his secondary school education was at Government College, Ibadan. He proceeded to the prestigious Obafemi Awolowo University where he studied psychology. He also obtained a degree in filmmaking in 2020 from the Met Film School in the UK.

Woli Arole started as an actor and stand-up comedian from Obafemi Awolowo University. He embraced social media and gained attention with short videos on Instagram. He auditioned and became a finalist at the Alibaba Spontaneity contest in Lagos. He recently debuted with his live show called ‘The Chat Room With Woli Arole’, on April 8, and it was met with applause.

In 2018, Woli Arole premiered his movie titled The Call which he produced and was featured as lead actor.