Detectives have narrowed down on the three culprits who were hired to kill Sharon Otieno. According to the Director of Criminal Investigations George Kinoti, arresting the three will be the final in the investigations.
Details from the DCI have revealed that the agency has extended the search to both Uganda and Tanzania where the suspects are believed to be hiding.
“It is true we have extended the search to Uganda and Tanzania,” The DCI told a local Daily on Wednesday.
He however refused to reveal more details about the hunt fearing that it might compromise the search. “What is I can say is that they won’t have any place to hide. We are on their trail,” he said. “They can run, but they can’t hide forever.”
According to sources, the three are believed to have been in control of the car that carried Nation Journalist Barrack Oduor and Sharon on the evening of their abduction on that fateful evening on September 3rd.
They’re also the ones suspected to have done the dirty work. Raping and stabbing Sharon to her death.
Sharon’s bloodied body was found in a thicket in Kodera forest two days later. She lay on her blood-stained white track suit, with her underwear and condoms around her. She had been stabbed in the neck, back and abdomen and, according to the postmortem, bled to death.
Her unborn son was stabbed through the spine, and the knife exited through the baby’s stomach. These men are therefore dangerous and inhumane which basically means that the public should beware.
The new development comes even as Governor, Obado, the first accused in the double homicide was released on bond on Wednesday after close to three weeks in custody.
According to Justice Jessie Lessit, the prosecution only has circumstantial evidence linking the governor to the murder of his girlfriend and his unborn child.
She ruled that it would be dangerous to deny him bond pending the trial, which he is facing alongside his personal assistant Oyamo and County clerk Obiero.
She released the governor on a sh 5 million bail and two sureties of the same amount. While he is now free to go back to his duties as a governor and meet his family, he still remains a besieged man because the judge ordered him not to go beyond 20km of his county, not to cause any adjournments when the trial starts, and to report to the deputy registrar of the court every month.
It is not yet clear what would happen if the three suspects are brought to book. Will the governor be arrested again?