Sulemana Abdul Samed, who is 29 years old, is 7 feet 4 inches tall.
The young man, Sulemana Abdul Samed, who had been diagnosed with gigantism a few years earlier, was requested to stand straight against a measuring rod when he went at a local clinic for a monthly appointment to deal with the difficulties of living as a giant.
“You’ve grown taller than the scale,” the surprised nurse said.
He was excited by the scene he was creating. Sulemana is better known to everyone by his nickname Awuche, which is Hausa for “Let’s Go.”
The on-call nurse asked for assistance from a colleague, who then called another different person. Soon, a team of nurses and medical assistants assembled to figure out the puzzle of how tall he was.
Awuche, who was just diagnosed with gigantism, was informed by a local clinic in northern Ghana that he had exceeded the hospital scale and that the facility lacked the appropriate measuring equipment for his steadily rising height.
Awuche, who is taller than the majority of the structures in his community of Gambaga, has become a bit of celebrity and struggles to locate ready-to-wear clothing and shoes.
“I’m still growing tall. Who knows, maybe one day I may get to that height too,” Awuche says as he aspires to surpass Sultan Kösen’s existing record for height.
Currently holding the Guinness World Record is Turkish native Sultan Kösen, 40 standing at 8ft 2.8 in tall.
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