Veteran Yoruba actor, Dento is down with an ailment many believe to be stroke. The very funny character, Dento has been down with stroke for months and nobody seems to care about him.

We gathered that he cannot talk and walk uprightly because half of his body has been totally paralysed. According to a local doctor treating him in Ibadan, he needs N250,000 to be healed and stand again.

According to a neighbour, who pleaded for anonymity, “One Sunday night, we bade one another good night as everybody went to sleep after chatting at the balcony of his (Dento) house as we usually do every night.

“But when his 13-year old son, Moshood, went to his bedroom to greet him the next morning, the versatile actor was unable to move his body,” the neighbour said.

Artistes have been visiting his Omotola Street, Owode area of Ibadan, Oyo state residence. It was gathered that his family has resorted to traditional healing.

The ailing actor has been off the acting scene for the past five years. He uses his late father’s building, where he lives, for his tailoring work.

He was a trained tailor before he ventured into full time acting.

None of his two wives lives with him. And the only person that lives with him is Moshhod, a child from his second wife.

According to a source, the second wife, who parked to her house a few years ago, had been visiting him regularly for care.

Dento, born about 60 years ago, is a native of Agbongbon area in Ibadan, Oyo State.

He became popular when he joined Chief Lere Paimo Theatre Group in the late 1970s. He also featured in an NTA Ibadan drama series in the early 1980s produced by the theatre group, and since then, he has become a household name.