Malik Obama, stepbrother to U.S. President Barrack Obama. he is receiving treatment at the Siaya District Hospital after suffering from diarrhoea.

Mr Malik Abong’o Obama was taken to Siaya District Hospital in Kenya's Nyanza province suffering from diarrhoea.

According to a doctor at the hospital who spoke to the Nation on condition of anonymity, it would take up to 18 hours to get the results of laboratory tests, and until then a cholera infection could not be ruled out.

But the Siaya District Medical Superintendent Jackton Omoto downplayed the matter, saying that Mr Abong’o was admitted to the hospital with ordinary diarrhoea. “People should not speculate on the matter since his case is a simple diarrhoea case like any other,” he said.

According to Dr Omoto, Mr Abong’o was taken to the hospital by police officers attached to their Nyang’oma Kogelo home in Siaya District after he complained of diarrhoea at midday on Wednesday.