Officer says Obado was not at Sharon murder scene

A senior police detective yesterday confirmed to court that former Migori Governor Okoth Obado was not at the scene of murder of Sharon Otieno.

 Chief Inspector Nicholas ole Sena formerly based at DCI headquarters before being transferred to another station told Justice Cecilia Githua investigations revealed Obado was not at the scene of crime.

He also told the court that Obado was not at the place where Sharon was abducted before she was murdered and the body found at Oyugis.

“Your lord, Sharon was abducted at a hotel and body found in Oyugis,” said Sena.

While answering questions by lawyer Rodgers Sagana, representing Obado, the officer confirmed that there is no evidence that Obado participated in the murder.

Love relationship

He told the court that Obado admitted while recording his statement that he had a love relationship with Sharon.

Sena testified that Obado told him that Sharon demanded a lavish lifestyle including a house worth Sh20 million, and Sh5 million for her upkeep in exchange for her silence over the affair.

He further told the court Obado’s family knew that he had a relationship with Sharon. The officer denied the allegation by lawyer Sagana that Obado’s case was politically motivated.

The witness told the court that he established that by the time of Sharon’s murder, Obado was in Nairobi attending a meeting called by ODM leader Raila Odinga.

Obado has been charged alongside his assistant Michael Oyamo and clerk Caspal Obiero over the murder that took place on September 3, 2018 in Homa Bay county.

 Earlier, former Kanyidoto MCA Lawrence Mula who gave his testimony disowned part of his statement implicating Obado, his co-accused Michael Oyamo and Caspal Obiero.

Almost five years after the three accused were charged in September 2018, with the murder of Sharon and her unborn baby, the prosecution presented its 30 witness, with only five out of 35 witnesses remaining.

The prosecution, led by Wangui Gichuhi, brought witnesses to demonstrate what happened prior to Sharon’s death.

Defence lawyers Kioko Kilukumi and Rodgers Sagana, representing Obado, lawyer Ogada Meso representing Oyamo, and Elisha Ongoya representing Obiero, were equally up to the task to interrogate each allegation raised by the witnesses.

Mula, who had also been arrested in connection with Sharon’s murder, was the prosecution’s star witness of the week, taking three days in the dock.