Joho hospitalised in Mombasa after abruptly being taken ill

Mombasa Governor Ali Hassan Joho is admitted at Mombasa Hospital.

This has been revealed by his communications director Richard Chacha, who says Joho was hospitalised on Wednesday after suddenly being taken ill.

The governor was admitted at the hospital after he complained of severe headache but Chacha says the doctors established that he was suffering from Malaria.

He further told Nairobi News on phone that doctors had recommended that he remain in hospital for further checkup on his arrival on Wednesday.

According to Chacha, Joho is expected to be discharged on Friday (today).

Reports of the ODM governor’s hospitalisation surfaced on Friday morning, after he was visited at the hospital by former Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo.

The governor was last seen in public on October 26 in Malindi when he accompanied Raila Odinga to the burial of Michael Ngumbao, who was shot and killed on October 15, two days to the Ganda Ward by-election.