Life
seems to be enjoyable to this 65-years-old Ugandan man Mustafa Magambo Mutone
who is a proud father of 176 children, 90 grandchildren and has 13 wives and 10
girlfriends. In fact if you are looking for the 'most fruitful' man in
Africa, Mustafa Magambo Mutone is the one as he is being tah ‘father of nations’.
In a
recently interview with Ugandan’s New Vision,
Mustafa said he’s having
financial challenges to train all of them and wants the Government to support
some of his 176 children.
“I have tried to feed my
13 wives and over 170 children and it is not easy. I request the Government to
at least sponsor 30 of my children in secondary schools and tertiary
institutions,” Mutone, a businessman and a resident of Kyaterekera trading
centre in Kagadi district, said.
He added that he has
over 40 children in primary school and has plans to establish his own nursery
and primary school in Kyaterekera sub-county. He says he has about 10 children
in the universities (Makerere, Mbarara and Kyambogo), most of them on private
sponsorship. Mutone has five pairs of twins among his children. His children
will hit the 180 mark by the end of the year because six of his wives are
pregnant.
Mutone, a Mubwisi by
tribe, is the chairman of Kyaterekera A village. He was born on January 1, 1952
in Kiryabwenju, Nyamiti parish, Muhorro town council in Kagadi district. His
first marriage was in 1968 at 16 years of age.
Following the interview
with Ugandan's New Vision, he explained that he is still strong enough to marry
more wives and bear more children, since he does not drink alcohol, smoke or
take sugar.
Mutone, who deals in
produce (beans, maize and coffee), also owns a wholesale shop at Kyaterekera
trading centre. He says some of his wives are working as midwives at Mulago
Hospital and Mbarara Hospital and in Rwanda.
"Two of my wives
who gave birth to twins are in Kampala and Isingiro, working as midwives, while
another two — Haniffer Kabasomi and Jane Tuhaise — work as nurses. My youngest
wife is 25, and the eldest is 50, but I had about 10 girlfriends before I
married officially and they all delivered the same year,” Mutone said.
According to him, his
first born child is 49 years old, while the youngest are four-year-old twins.
He noted that he has over 90 grandchildren. The grey-haired Mutone, said he has
a special book where he records every child born whether within the country or
outside, because he has some wives in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Rwanda,
and Burundi.
He said one of the
challenges he faces is the long distance as some of his women live in different
parts of the country.
‘’I receive about
10 calls every day from different wives who want attention but I cannot be
everywhere. I have seven wives in Kagadi alone,” he said. “I do not have any
challenge of supporting them because some of them support themselves since they
work,” Mutone said.
Madina Tibasiima, 45,
one of his wives who has nine children, said she has not faced any problems
with a big family because most of her children are working as soldiers, civil
servants, and nurses. She, however, said her younger children need school fees;
some are in primary school and others in secondary school.
One of Mutone’s sons,
Kyaise Suwedi, 40, the Gombolola internal security officer of Kyaterekera, said
his monthly salary caters for some of his brothers’ education.
“We were groomed by our
father to be responsible, have good morals and work hard. The only challenge is
the big number of dependants of other wives who have children aged between four
and 13 years,’’ Kyaise said.
While another son,
Muhamad Byarufu, aged 45, said he owns a business and helps pay school
fees of some of his younger brothers.
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