Sharon’s murder case to be heard in Murang’a after judge’s transfer
By Bernice.Mbugua, April 20, 2023
High Court judge Cecilia Githua will continue hearing the murder case against former Migori Governor Okoth Obado (pictured) despite her transfer to Murang’a county.
“I thought with my transfer I had escaped from further hearing and concluding this matter but looks like I was not very lucky, so I am back on it,” she said.
The former governor has been charged alongside his personal assistant Michael Oyamo and Casper Obiero, a clerk at the Migori county government with the murder of Sharon and her unborn baby in 2018.
The case will now be heard for two weeks between July 17 and 28 this year.
The prosecution intends to call eighteen more witnesses who are remaining to testify in the case. 24 witnesses have already testified.
The 25th witness in the case was last time stood down after the defense counsels complained that they had not been supplied with documentary evidence being relied on by the witness.
Registration details
The witness, Baraqo Baji, who works for National Transport and Safety Authority (NTSA) was referring to a document detailing the registration details of a motor vehicle believed to have been used during the abduction of the late Sharon Otieno.
The witness at the time worked in the registration department.
He told Justice Githua that they had received a request letter from the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) regarding the said vehicle and another KCF 519F.
DCI sought to know the current and past owners of the vehicle and any other relevant information.
From the NTSA record, the KCL was imported by one Saidi Kalu. The origin is Japan and was registered on April 28, 2017.
Government Pathologist Johansen Oduor who performed the post-mortem on Sharon and her unborn baby testified that she died due to severe bleeding due to penetrating force trauma.
The court heard that Sharon had seven stab wounds and two slash wounds on her body. “There was a slash wound below the left ear, it was horizontal and was 30 millimetres deep. Another slash wound parallel to the other one, measured 40 by 5 millimetres and 25 millimetres in depth.”