Migori governor Okoth Obado’s aide Michael Oyamo was involved in the plan to commit the gruesome murder of his boss’s pregnant ex-lover Sharon Otieno, prosecutors told the Court yesterday.
Oyamo then drove to a police station, purporting to be Kidnapped by the very gang he hired, prosecutors said.
They told a Nairobi High Court that Oyamo was a calculating planner who took advantage of his familiarity with Sharon to lure her and hand her over to ruthless murderers who stabbed her eight times.
The criminals also stabbed her unborn baby, Obado’s son, through Sharon’s back. The blade smashed through the stomach of the foetus.
Prosecutor Clement Mwangi says he has since established that after Oyamo handed over Sharon and Oduor to the abductors, he proceeded to Uriri police station and made a false report that he had been kidnapped.
“The accused person alleged that following his kidnap, he found himself at Kisii Level 5 Hospital on September 4 where he was purportedly treated at 9am,” the affidavit reads.
The DCI has established that Oyamo was not a patient at the hospital then. DNA results confirmed Obado fathered Sharon’s child.
“Sharon was tortured, raped and brutally murdered. We have evidence linking the accused person and his accomplices to the commission of the heinous crime,” the affidavit says.
Oyamo, who appeared before justice Jessie Lessit, denied murdering Sharon. He is the second person to be charged with the murder of the 26-year-old student. He was also denied bail.
Mwangi said releasing Oyamo on bail would expose Sharon’s family and other witnesses to the risk of intimidation, considering the suspect’s central role in the murder.
“As the persons to whom the accused handed over the deceased are still at large, it would be extremely dangerous to release him now.
There is a real risk that if released he could easily reconnect with the same gang and put the witnesses at grave risk,” the affidavit says.