Detectives Grill Migori Governor Okoth Obado over University Student Sharon Otieno's Murder

Detectives from the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) on Tuesday questioned Migori Governor Okoth Obado over the murder of Rongo University student Sharon Otieno.

Governor Obado was grilled after he was summoned to DCI offices in Kisumu by detectives investigating the killing of the 26-year-old student.

The Orange Democratic Movement (ODM) Governor has not addressed the matter in person despite being adversely mentioned in the abduction and killing of Sharon. Instead, Obado through his spokesman Nicholas Anyuor distanced himself from the incident.

"Let police do the investigations and take necessary actions. Associating the governor with this incidence could be a political ploy meant to tarnish his name. Let the police do the investigations and take necessary actions,” Anyuor said.

Obado sent his lawyer Cliff Ombeta and a private pathologist Fredrick Otieno to witness a post-mortem examination carried out on Sharon's body at Rachuonyo Level 4 Hospital mortuary on Friday.

Speaking to the Nation, lawyer Ombeta said Obado was represented during the autopsy to ensure that "nothing malicious goes on."

“When you start hearing politicians start talking that the governor should be investigated and that they want him to be arrested because he is ultimately the master of the personal assistant (Michael Oyamo), you can see that there is intended malice," Obado's lawyer Ombeta said.

"These are people speaking out of ignorance and without facts, but just because they want to sharpen their axes to fight him. It is important then for a governor who has been adversely mentioned, falsely and without his side of the story not being taken, to have somebody to represent him so that nothing malicious goes on."

Obado's personal assistant Michael Oyamo, a prime suspect in the murder of Sharon, has been in police custody since last week and was scheduled to be arraigned in court on Tuesday.