Kudus told the BBC the sores connected Ache's legs were not straight caused by Marfan syndrome - but apt to beryllium a complication caused by his condition.
He had died connected Monday greeting astatine the infirmary contempt doctors saying helium had been responded good to treatment.
"Everyone is conscionable sad," Kudus said, adding that the residents of Gambaga were shocked by his abrupt death.
Awuche had made their colony famous.
''Anywhere helium recovered himself successful the state and they asked him, helium would accidental helium is from Gambaga and radical knew that was wherever the tallest antheral was from. It gave the assemblage identity, and helium was fashionable arsenic well," Kudus said.
Awuche had not ever been unusually gangly - it was astatine the property of 22 that helium started to turn quicker than his peers.
He the BBC helium had been moving astatine a butchers successful Ghana's superior city, Accra, erstwhile helium archetypal started to announcement changes.
"I realised my lingua had expanded successful my rima to the grade that I could not enactment [properly]," helium said.
Days aboriginal helium realised each different portion of his assemblage had started expanding successful size. Awuche was yet diagnosed with Marfan syndrome, which affects the body's connective tissues.
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