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Posted By TimALoftis 1 year, 3 months ago in FamilyA Nigerian Muslim court Monday detained an 84-year-old Islamic preacher with 86 wives after he failed to heed a call by local leaders to divorce all but four of them.
The authorities in central Niger state charged Mohammed Bello with "insulting religious creed" and "unlawful marriages" after local chiefs and Muslim leaders gave him until September 7 to comply with Islamic sharia law, which allows a man to have no more than four wives at a time.
Bello had received a number of death threats after the Nigerian media began reporting on his unusual marital situation, his spokesman said. Some newspapers said earlier in September that Bello had agreed at a meeting with local officials to divorce all but four of his wives and had asked for time to return them to their families. But his spokesman later denied the reports and said the preacher intended to marry more wives instead. At present, his extended family also includes some 170 children.
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ErinMotz1 year, 2 months ago
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I wonder what he does for a living. Typically in communities that 'allow' their men to have more than one wife, he can only do so under the condition that he can support all of them (financially) equally. So 86 is impressive, haha!
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