- Safiu Kehinde
Legendary Nollywood actress, Kate Henshaw, has slammed Nigerian TikToker, Habeeb Hamzat, popularly known as Peller, over a latest TikTok challenge.
The new trend called the Inbe is done by TikTokers with a caption mostly challenging them to either return to their old relationship or imitate persons with Intellectual & Developmental Disabilities (IDD).
With a South African amapiano beat playing at the background, the challenge has over the last two weeks gained traction as TikTokers jumped on it.
Peller had last week joined the trend with a caption the caption “Use your woman playwith anybody or turn to Inbe”.
As captured in the video, the TikToker tucked in shirt while imitating an IDD patient with saliva drooling from his mouth.
Reacting to the video in a post on her X handle on Friday, Henshaw labelled the challenge as unacceptable, stressing that persons with IDD are not to be ridiculed under any guise.
She warned against making joke out of disability.
“Under no circumstance is this kind of video acceptable!!
Persons with Intellectual & Developmental Disabilities (IDD) are not to be ridiculed under any guise😤😤
Disability is NOT a joke!!
It is cruel for this to be used as a trend..😤😡” the Nollywood legend wrote.
Her reaction attracted comments from netizens with some supporting the actress while others were of contrary view.
“Mad people roaming on sm media with us.
That’s how Neo the Laptop boy was saying they should end special needs and disabled kids right at the hospital ward.”@Mr_Jibzz
“All these are used to get people talking. One might think a popular figure like you calling him out or condemning his actions will change thing. Nowadays, negativity makes people more popular. Morals are in the grave, they just want numbers.”@Ghislaintweets
“He did that as a content it’s a now it becomes abominable. But aunty Kate have you not featured in a movie back then that your nollywood use someone normal to act a role of an IDD? And they Re still acting same character on a daily basis.”@official_emmyt
“This boy has the worst contents on social media. His contents are bereft of humour and lessons yet he’s got awards and also trending online. That speaks to what appeals to most Nigerians.”@Jeffosky1
“My question is, what’s funny about this boy that a lot grant him such an audience ?
Everything about him irks me tbh 🤦”@PoreyRash
“Watch as 9ja people go start to attack aunty k say she dey jealous small boy. 🤦”@Jerale9
“But actors acts different roles to get paid just as content creators?”@iKaptainKush
“Ma’am I guess you have to start calling out skit makers and not single out just this guy. They do it a lot even in nollywood movies. This has been an issue that’s still not yet sorted in the Nigeria media”@Asarailu_
“Only a dũ..ll person would make a video like this. Ridiculing individuals with special needs is completely unacceptable. This boy is just a child and likely doesn’t even understand the full implications of what he’s doing. This is yet another reason why education is so important and why many people need to take it more seri0ũsly. 🤦🏾♂🤦🏾♂🤦🏾♂”@Dr_Pharouk
“In any country with decency, he’d be deplatformed immediately. But Nigeria is upside down, where cruelty gets you clout, and empathy is seen as weakness. Peller’s entire brand is built on mocking pain, faking accents, and appealing to his audience’s lowest instincts. He adds zero value, just noise, disgrace, and cheap laughs at the expense of the vulnerable.
It’s not “dark humor.” It’s not “just content.”
It’s ableism, it’s shameful, and it deserves to be canceled.
We shouldn’t just report him, we should bury the entire genre of lazy, mocking, thoughtless TikTok comedy that humiliates the people society should be protecting.
Peller is not funny. He’s just loud. And if this is what makes you laugh, you need more than content,you need character.”@AdaIgb00