He told MillardAyo:
"Ilitokea nikawa napata taabu kwenye kula. Chakula hakishuki, wala nikinywa maji hayashuki.Tatizo likaenda likiwa kubwa."
Adding that:
"Nikaenda hospitali fulani Tanzania nikaambiwa ni cancer ya koo."
Mombasa Governor Ali Hassan Joho reached out to Dimpoz when the two attended Ali Kiba's wedding early this year.
"Wakati wa harusi ya Ali Kiba, tulikua na Gavana wa Mombasa, akaniuliza nina tatizo gani?Bahati nzuri akasema maana ako na madaktari wazuri niwapigie.Nikaanza tena vipimo upya."
He then received news that he had eaten or drank something that had been poisoned causing the complications on his throat.
"Nikaambiwa kesi yangu ina dalili zote kwamba nilikula au kunywa kitu ambacho ni sumu. Daktari wakaricomment hospitali ya South Africa."
When he went to South Africa, Dimpoz says the doctors there also told him that he could have been poisoned.
"The question nikaulizwa 'hujawahi kunywa sumu?' Ni sumu ndio inasababisha."
Months later, he did the surgery that is slowly getting his health back
"Tukapanga na nikafanyiwa upasuaji."
He has however shut down rumours going rounds that he is gravely ill and in hospital.