Former Migori governor Okoth Obado was in Nairobi at the night of Sharon murder according to safaricom call data records produced in court today
An investigator attached to safaricom told the court that the call data records of former Migori Governor Okoth Obado were not at the scene where late Rongo university student Sharon Otieno was found murdered.
The witness told the court that throughout the night of 2 September 2018 to 5 September 2018, Obado was in Nairobi.
Obado is on trial over Sharon’s murder and her unborn baby. He has been charged alongside his personal Assistant Michael Oyamo and clerk Caspal Obiero over the murder that took place on 3 September 2018 HomaBay County. Results of a DNA test conducted on the foetus conclusively showed that Obado was the father of Sharon’s unborn child.
The witness-Quinto Odek Etyang told Justice Cecilia Githua that on 2 September, he received a letter from the investigating team requiring safaricom to provide call data records of the accused persons, the deceased and witnesses under protection. The period in question was from 01/08/2018-06/9/2018. Also sought was there history location or geographical location and Mpesa statements
The data was to enable the team to piece together their movements and alleged involvement in the murder.
From the mpesa statements presented in court, one of the witnesses who was under protection made some payments to a paybill associated with fly 540 aviation limited. Amount involved was sh 12540. He later transferred sh 5100 to the late Sharons number. It was not said what the money was for.
The witness also mentioned that Sharons number 0725869141 was previously being used by a lady Identified as Naomi Hassan. Asked when Naomi started and stopped using that line, the witness said he did not have that information. He also could not tell at what point Sharon started using that line.
As he was being cross examined by Senior Counsel Kioko Kilukumi, Qunto said that on 2nd September 2018 at 1650hrs, Obado was captured at Suswa, In rift Valley. At 1732hrs he was captured by the cell tower at Mai mahiu.
At 1803hrs he was at Sigona. And still on the same day at 1827hrs he was captured at lavington.
“I confirm that throughout the night of 2nd going to third the subscriber spent his night at lavington,” said the witness.
The situation was the same till September 5.
The witness further took the court through data records of one Jack Gombe, a taxi driver who allegedly ferried Sharon to ‘her death’.
From the evidence before court, it showed that Gombe’s phone was on from 6pm to 1130 pm on 3 September 2018 contrary to what he had earlier told the court in his evidence. Gombe had claimed that his phone was off and he had left it at a shop in Migori charging.
But the call data from Safaricom proved otherwise.
“This phone of Jack Gombe was constantly on the move being picked by different Base Transceiver Stations (BTSs). The subscriber was moving within Migori. At no time was it stationery in one place from the data available,” said the witness