An 80-year-old farmer in Eastern Ghana who has 12 wives and over one
hundred children, and is still exploring for more women - almost
committed incest with his own daughter after proposing to her. According
to reports, the aged man has within 40 years given birth to over 100
children with 12 women, all of who are married to him in a polygamous
marriage.
On the occasion of 2017 Father’s Day, the children and the wives marched to Asilenu’s residence on Sunday.
“If
I get a lady today, I will marry her and have more children. As for
men, even in old age we can still father children. I’m not impotent,”
Asilenu told TV3’s Portia Gabor who spent some time with the family on
Father’s Day.
Unfortunately, Asilenu has lost track of his
family- He’s unable to mention the name of all his children. When Portia
Gabor asked him to do a roll call, he got stuck along the line in
mentioning their names. And it was thus not surprising that he proposed
marriage to one of her daughters who he met in town.
But for the
awareness of his daughter, Asilenu would have committed incest by
having amorous relationship with her own daughter, unknowingly though.
One
of his sons narrated how his father proposed to one of his sisters and
the interesting excuse Mr Asilenu gave when it emerged that he is the
father of the lady he had expressed love to. “He [Asilenu] met the lady
and said he loved her…..and later on, the lady said she was his
daughter,” she told Portia Gabor, adding “he [Asilenu] said his eyes
were worrying him, that was why he didn’t notice it was her own daughter
and we laughed over it”.
The son also suspects they are more than 100 children: “In fact we’re plenty, we’re almost 100 and something” he told Portia.
Just
like their father, some of the children do not know their numerical
placement in the family. Portia Gabor asked one of his daughters, Mary
Asilenun, where she place in the family numerically and she simply
laughed and responded, “…I can’t remember”.
Asilenu, his wives and children reportedly get along with each other and have been living happily as one united family....
