A FARMER who has 102 children and 568 grandchildren has asked his 12 wives to go on the Pill.
Musa Hasahya, 67, has finally decided to stop growing his family as they can barely afford to eat.
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He said: “My income has become lower and lower over the years due to the rising cost of living and my family has become bigger and bigger.
“I married one woman after another. How can a man be satisfied with one woman?
“All my wives live together in the same house.
“It’s easy for me to monitor them and also stop them eloping with other men in this village.”
His youngest wife, Zulaika, mother of 11 of his children, said:
“I’m not having any more children.
“I’ve seen the bad financial situation and am now taking the birth control pill.”
Musa and his family live in Lusaka in Uganda — where polygamy is legal.
But contraceptives are controversial there and often linked to promiscuity.
About a third of Musa’s children live with him on his farm.
His youngest is six, his oldest is 51 — about 20 years older than Zulaika.
He can no longer work because of ill-health and two of his wives have left because of the financial pressures.
