A senior police detective Wednesday confirmed to court that former Migori Governor Okoth Obado was not at the scene of murder of Sharon Otieno and unborn baby.
Chief Inspector Nicholas Ole Sena who is the 42 witness, was being cross-examined in the murder case facing Obado, his personal aide Michael Oyamo and a clerk in Migori County Casper Obiero.
While answering questions by lawyer Rodgers Sagana, representing Obado, the officer confirmed that on the material day Obado was in Karen having a meeting with Raila Odinga’s wife and there is no evidence he participated in the  murder of Sharon and the abduction of a journalist.
“The investigations was that the deceased was abducted and then killed, we don’t have any knowledge or evidence that he participated in the killing of Sharon,” court heard
Ole Sena further  said that there was no evidence that Obado had the knowledge of the meetings which later led to the abduction of the Rongo University Student and a journalist.
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.
On Tuesday, Ole Sena showed the court photographic exhibits from the scene of the alleged murder. He told the court that investigations and interrogations of Okoth Obado and his then personal assistant Michael Oyamo showed that the two were well known to the deceased.
The witness further told the court that it was visible from the deceased’s body that she was pregnant and that the body had visible injuries of a knife stub on the left side close to the heart.
He also confirmed to the court that after the Post Mortem of both Sharon and her unborn child, the doctor formed the opinion that Sharon was 7 months pregnant and that the cause of death was severe haemorrhage due to a sharp object force trauma.