Ethiopia’s ‘Tallest Man’ Tells Ghana Giant ‘You Are Not Bigger Than Me’

An Ethiopian giant has said claims that a Ghanaian rival has reached a world recording-breaking height are just tall tales. Ghana's Sulemana Abdul Samed, 29, was told he might be as tall as 2.89 metres during a hospital check-up, the BBC reported this week. READ MORE Meet the world's shortest man, Iran's Afshin Ghaderzadeh, at 65cm But medics said they did not have proper measuring equipment, so a BBC reporter visited his village in northern Ghana with a tape measure in hand. The tape showed Mr Samed to be 2.23 metres — well short of the world’s tallest man. Ethiopian Negewo Jima saw…