{"id":1270520,"date":"2022-12-27T16:40:29","date_gmt":"2022-12-27T16:40:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/12\/27\/ugandan-farmer-with-12-wives-and-102-kids-vows-to-put-his-wives-on-family-planning-after-struggling-to-feed-them-photos\/"},"modified":"2022-12-27T16:40:29","modified_gmt":"2022-12-27T16:40:29","slug":"ugandan-farmer-with-12-wives-and-102-kids-vows-to-put-his-wives-on-family-planning-after-struggling-to-feed-them-photos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/12\/27\/ugandan-farmer-with-12-wives-and-102-kids-vows-to-put-his-wives-on-family-planning-after-struggling-to-feed-them-photos\/","title":{"rendered":"Ugandan Farmer With 12 Wives And 102 Kids Vows To Put His Wives On Family Planning After Struggling To Feed Them (+PHOTOS) \u00bb \u2122"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div data-td-block-uid=\"tdi_33\">\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<p><span class=\"td-adspot-title\">&#8211;  &#8211;<\/span><br \/>\n<!-- ResponsiveAll --><\/p>\n<p>A Ugandan man\u00a0with 12 wives and 102 children, Mzee Musa Hasahya,\u00a0has vowed not to have more kids as he\u2019s struggling to cope with his huge family.<br \/>\u00a0<br \/>The 67-year-old farmer has now advised his wives of childbearing age to go on the pill.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>According to UK\u2019s Daily Star, Hasahya, is feeling the bite of rising cost of living in Bugisa, Uganda, where he lives with his large family.<br \/>\u00a0<br \/>\u201cI cannot tolerate bearing children any more because of the limited resources. And on that note I have advised all my wives of childbearing age to go for family planning. I also discourage those who wish to marry more than four wives not to do so because things are not good,\u201d he said.\u00a0<br \/>\u00a0<br \/>He added, \u201cMy income has become lower and lower over the years due to the rising cost of living and my family has become bigger and bigger.\u201d<br \/>\u00a0<br \/>Musa, who also has 568 grandchildren, lives in a compound with a 12-bedroom house. He married his first wife Hanifa in 1971 at the age of 16.<br \/>\u00a0<br \/>He says while he can tell his children and grandchildren apart, he does not know them all by name.<\/p>\n<p>He married his first wife Hanifa in 1971 at the age of 16 after quitting school, and he became a dad for the first time two years later when she gave birth to a daughter.<br \/>\u00a0<br \/>As the village chairperson and a businessman, he says he decided to add to his family as he had the money and the land.<br \/>\u00a0<br \/>\u201cBecause I was able to earn something, I decided to expand my family by marrying more women,\u201d he said.\u00a0<br \/>\u00a0<br \/>\u201cI ensured that hoes are provided for each of them to till the land and produce food enough to support the family since the soils are fertile.\u201d<br \/>\u00a0<br \/>However, he is now asking the government for help, saying he is struggling to educate all his children.<br \/>\u00a0<br \/>But despite his enormous brood, his family say they generally all get on well.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"td-adspot-title\">&#8211;  &#8211;<\/span><br \/>\n<!-- ResponsiveAll --><\/p>\n<p>See Photos below;<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure class=\"is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-1 wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" data-perfmatters-preload=\"5\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"984\" height=\"800\" data-id=\"304957\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-304957\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/FB_IMG_1672157767572-984x800.jpg\"\/><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" data-perfmatters-preload=\"5\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"984\" height=\"800\" data-id=\"304957\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/FB_IMG_1672157767572-984x800.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-304957\"\/><\/noscript><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n<p><span class=\"td-adspot-title\">&#8211;  &#8211;<\/span><br \/>\n<!-- ResponsiveAll --><\/p>\n<figure class=\"is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-3 wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"blob:https:\/\/www.ghbase.com\/0fd7c4e5-e32c-4db6-819b-bd00ef31443f\"\/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"blob:https:\/\/www.ghbase.com\/0fd7c4e5-e32c-4db6-819b-bd00ef31443f\" alt=\"\"\/><\/noscript><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8211; &#8211; A Ugandan man\u00a0with 12 wives and 102 children, Mzee Musa Hasahya,\u00a0has vowed not to have more kids as he\u2019s struggling to cope with his huge family.\u00a0The 67-year-old farmer has now advised his wives of childbearing age to go on the pill.\u00a0 According to UK\u2019s Daily Star, Hasahya, is feeling the bite of rising [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1270521,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[452,7192,7152,1037,809,5828,3121,7838,11397,1194,7676],"class_list":["post-1270520","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-family","tag-farmer","tag-feed","tag-kids","tag-photos","tag-planning","tag-put","tag-struggling","tag-ugandan","tag-vows","tag-wives"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1270520","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1270520"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1270520\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1270520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1270520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1270520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}