Director of Public Prosecutions Noordin Haji on Sunday said Migori governor Okoth Obado will be arrested and tried if evidence links him to the murder of Sharon Otieno.
“No one is above the law, not even the governor. No one mentioned will be left out,” Haji told a press conference in Mombasa after meeting with rights lobby HAKI-Africa. He was speaking in response to a question when asked if Obado could be arrested.
Obado has neither spoken about the case nor appeared in public.
Sharon’s body was discovered in Kodera forest last week after she was kidnapped by unknown people. She was abducted on Monday together with Nation journalist Barrack Oduor from a hotel in Rongo.
An autopsy revealed the university student, 26, was tortured, stabbed eight times, mutilated and raped. Her seven-month-old foetus was killed as one stab wound extended all the way to her spine.
Meanwhile, the mysterious person who was allowed access to Migori Governor Okoth Obado’s Personal Assistant Michael Oyamo in a cell on Saturday has claimed he is a military officer and was on official duty.
Mr Oyamo was arrested in connection to the killing of Rongo University student Sharon Otieno and the failed abduction of Nation Journalist Barack Oduor.
He said he had contacted his bosses in Mombasa “to handle this issue because I have received several calls with threats for having a link with Sharon’s murder”.
He went on: “I was sent officially to find out whether Mr Oyamo had made necessary clearance from the Navy, which he left sometime in 2014.”