The Man With 107 Wives
Written on May 17, 2011 by Jamie Clarkson
And you thought your college boyfriend was a playerBello Maasaba, a Nigerian Islamic faith healer, has married 107 women. He now has 86 wives, ranging in age from 19 to 64. Nine have died, and hes divorced twelve wives for disobedience.
The entire family, along with some of Maasabas followers and aides, lives in a house with 89 rooms, where a microphone and speaker system let the patriarch speak to his entire brood at once.
Masaaba lived the first part of his life as a normal guy with a clothing business and just two wives. Then, while in the throes of a religious vision in the 1970s, an angel instructed him to take many wives. The same vision led him to become a traditional faith healer who does not believe in medicine. Even if his children are ill, Masaaba refuses to seek medical care. He says that when his children have died, I didnt feel annoyed or upset. I didnt feel anything because its God who gave them to me and its God who takes them away.
Maasaba has fathered 185 children in total, and 133 are still living.
Three years ago, Islamic authorities in Niger ordered Maasaba to divorce 82 of his wives, keeping four, because the Koran only allows up to four wives. He refused, and was subsequently arrested and put in jail. His wives demonstrated for his release 11 were pregnant at the time and testified on his behalf in a court trial. The judge asked to hear testimony from all his wives, but never made it through all of them, deciding to free Masaaba after hearing from wives #1 through #57.
When asked how heahemsatisfies so many wives, Masaaba says, In his wisdom, God has given me the power and strength to give them the sexual portion they need. If I didnt satisfy them, they would leave.
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