Two Guys SportsLiz Taylor Has Nothing on This Guy
September 5th 2008 06:15
Liz Taylor Has Nothing on This Guy
Mohammadu Bello Abubakar of Nigeria faced a possible death penalty, and eviction from his house. How they would have done the latter if they enforced the other, I don’t know. Abubakar is an 84-year-old former teacher and preacher that lives in the Niger state in northwest Nigeria.
Wondering what his crime is? Well you see he is a married man with a big family. He has 170 children, that is not a typo of any sort, he has 170 kids. That however is not the illegal part. Abubakar also has 86 wives. He was fine up until 2000 when the Islamic Sharia law was re-enacted in the area where he lives. The Sharia law states that a man may only have four wives. As you can tell by doing the math, he is a little bit over the limit.
A few weeks prior to being officially charged he told the BBC that there was no punishment in the Koran for having more than four wives. The Nigerian Supreme Council for Islamic Affairs saw it differently and said that under the Sharia law a man is clearly limited to four wives.
Abubakar came around to their way of thinking and has agreed to divorce 82 of his wives. They have dropped the death penalty sentence he was given, but he will still be evicted from his home.
All I can say is wow. Somehow this guy was making 86 marriages work. That is just amazing, as is the total number of children. Some sources listed him as a former sex education teacher. I cannot confirm this for sure, but if it is true he must have had a real hands-on approach to his teaching. His teaching also clearly didn’t include abstinence or birth control. Hmm, with those things eliminated there isn’t a whole lot of teaching left to do.
I am also curious how he will choose which four to stay married to. I mean do the four longest win the lottery? Does he do what many men would do and pick the four youngest? Or. . . Does he pick the four that are best in the bedroom? Although creating 170 kids with 86 different women, I doubt much of the conceiving was done in a bedroom.
Mohammadu Bello Abubakar of Nigeria faced a possible death penalty, and eviction from his house. How they would have done the latter if they enforced the other, I don’t know. Abubakar is an 84-year-old former teacher and preacher that lives in the Niger state in northwest Nigeria.
Wondering what his crime is? Well you see he is a married man with a big family. He has 170 children, that is not a typo of any sort, he has 170 kids. That however is not the illegal part. Abubakar also has 86 wives. He was fine up until 2000 when the Islamic Sharia law was re-enacted in the area where he lives. The Sharia law states that a man may only have four wives. As you can tell by doing the math, he is a little bit over the limit.
A few weeks prior to being officially charged he told the BBC that there was no punishment in the Koran for having more than four wives. The Nigerian Supreme Council for Islamic Affairs saw it differently and said that under the Sharia law a man is clearly limited to four wives.
Abubakar came around to their way of thinking and has agreed to divorce 82 of his wives. They have dropped the death penalty sentence he was given, but he will still be evicted from his home.
All I can say is wow. Somehow this guy was making 86 marriages work. That is just amazing, as is the total number of children. Some sources listed him as a former sex education teacher. I cannot confirm this for sure, but if it is true he must have had a real hands-on approach to his teaching. His teaching also clearly didn’t include abstinence or birth control. Hmm, with those things eliminated there isn’t a whole lot of teaching left to do.
I am also curious how he will choose which four to stay married to. I mean do the four longest win the lottery? Does he do what many men would do and pick the four youngest? Or. . . Does he pick the four that are best in the bedroom? Although creating 170 kids with 86 different women, I doubt much of the conceiving was done in a bedroom.
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