- Woli Arole emphasizes the importance of discernment in helping others.
- He shares a personal experience of being taken advantage of after offering assistance.
- Arole met a man on a prayer mountain who claimed to need money for a travel ticket after obtaining a visa.
Popular comedian Woli Arole has urged people to exercise discernment when offering help to others, drawing from a personal experience where his kindness was taken advantage of.
He recounted meeting a man on a prayer mountain who claimed to have obtained a visa and only needed money for a travel ticket. Moved by compassion, Arole gave him the requested funds.
However, he later discovered that the individual had misused the money and never made the journey. When their paths crossed again, it became clear that the story had been a fabrication.
Arole shared the incident to remind others to be wise and cautious in their acts of generosity.
He wrote:
”If you in the act of helping people, be careful how you help. Be led when you want to help. I finished a programme on the mountain one day and a guy came to meet me ‘’Woli I have my Visa, na travelling remain. You were the one who prayed for me. Your prayer dey work”Na trip remain. I don gather small money. I need like N200k.
We love to help and so we gave this boy some money. He said ‘’Baba I am travelling. I am going tomorrow night’. A week later, we had another programme in Ibadan and decided to sit at an Amala joint. There we saw this same guy eating goat meat”
