Governor Okoth Obado’s wife Hellen Adhiambo has said there was a plot in April to record a sex tape of her husband with Sharon Otieno, the slain Rongo University Student.
In her statement to the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) recorded on September 23, Hellen said it was during this revelation that she heard of Sharon — for the first time.
Sharon, who was seven month’s pregnant with the Migori governor’s son, was brutally murdered on September 3.
The governor has been charged with murder, conspiracy and financing, which he has denied. He has been remanded until his bail hearing on October 8.
The Star Newspaper Thursday report says Hellen Obado told detectives that a man, whose mobile she did not have, called her from Awendo subcounty and introduced himself as a friend of the governor’s family.
Hellen said the caller informed her that Sharon was booked at the Imperial Hotel in Kisumu where the sex episode was to be videotaped.
“I called one of our coordinators from Awendo to inquire if Sharon was part of the governor’s campaign team dubbed Warembo na Obado. We confirmed she wasn’t,” the governor’s wife said.
Hellen said she called her husband, who was at the devolution conference in Kakamega, to inform him of the plot.
“I asked him whether he knew Sharon and whether he had booked with her at the said hotel. He denied that and informed me that he was staying at the Acacia Premier hotel,” she told the DCI.
“I told him (the governor) that I had information of a plan of recording him with Sharon. He dismissed the allegations and maintained that he was not booked at the Imperial Hotel.”
On Wednesday, Obado was rushed from Industrial Area Prison to Kenyatta National Hospital yesterday after suffering a severe stomachache. Prison bosses said he was admitted at about 10am.
It has emerged that his wife Hellen confronted him with questions about Sharon later, after the devolution conference.
She told detectives there were rumours of the governor seeking a second wife.
Hellen said the claim of a second wife was circulating so widely on social media that she even referred to it at a public gathering during a speech.
She adds Obado later sat her down in May and admitted his affair with Sharon, even telling her the Rongo University student was pregnant.
“I asked him if he was planning to marry Sharon as a second wife. I told him that I honestly preferred he married instead of having affairs. He told me he had no such plans and that he had ended the relationship with the said girl,” Hellen’s statement reads.
“My husband said he would only discuss the welfare of the child if proved to be his.” He later admitted paternity.
Hellen also said she later saw a text from Sharon in Obado’s phone during their son’s graduation in July.
“It was then that I asked him how he was going to bring the baby home without informing our children. We agreed to sit with our children, as the talk of Sharon’s pregnancy became common,” she said.