Former Migori Governor Okoth Obado’s Personal Assistant (PA), Michael Oyamo, has confirmed to the court that the late Sharon Otieno received threatening messages on her phone before her murder.

In grim evidence before Justice Cecilia Githua at the Milimani High Court on Friday, May 23, 2025, Oyamo concurred with evidence produced in court by prosecution witness number 26, stating there were threatening messages extracted from Sharon’s tablet.

During the third day of the murder case defence hearing, Lawyer Ogada Meso read some of the messages received by Sharon, warning her to stay away from an unnamed husband.

“Please leave my husband alone, I can do you the worst, you will not walk away with it,” some of the messages read in court by lawyer Meso.

The lawyer also read another message that was requesting Sharon to leave an unnamed husband alone, adding that if she did not, “unbelievable will be the order of the day.”

In her response, Sharon texted back the person, stating that she did not remember going out with anyone’s husband.

Notably, Oyamo told the court that the evidence by prosecution witness number 26 consisted of real-life threats sent to Sharon.

Meanwhile, Obado’s PA firmly told the court that he did not kill Sharon, nor did he collude with anyone in planning her murder.

“My lady, I did not collude with anyone with the intention of harming or killing the late Sharon Otieno, and I did not also do that on my own, my lady,” Oyamo told the court.

Oyamo also informed the court that he was taken from the Uriri police station cells and driven all the way to Kisumu, where he was locked in a car for six hours and tortured while handcuffed.

Lawyer Meso then asked his client whether the police told him what they wanted from him during that time.

In his response, he said that the police wanted him to be part of the story and confess that the Governor had organized the killing and sent him to execute the plan.

“The police wanted me to be part of the story and say the Governor organized the killing of the lady and sent me. They wanted me to put it in writing,” Oyamo stated.

He also expressed his fears of being poisoned while at the police station.

At the Uriri police station, Oyamo was booked two times—where in the first OB entry, Oyamo had gone to report his failed abduction trial, and the other OB entry stated that he was to be charged with a kidnapping trial.

“In OB 19 entered at the Uriri Police Station, the police noted that I went to the station and reported abduction, where I was treated as a reportee of an abduction, and in OB 20 the police recommended I be charged with an offence of kidnapping,” Oyamo told the court.

He also admitted that on the morning of September 4, 2018, he was in Kisii town owing to an aborted Nairobi trip but denied going to any hospital or seeking any medical attention that day.

The Directorate of Public Prosecution (DPP), through the Assistant Director of Public Prosecutions Gikui Gichui, said that they were not prepared to proceed with cross-examining the second accused.

She cited that the defence team had produced some new evidence in documents that they did not have, and they needed time to go through them.

“My lady, we will be requesting time so that we can consult with the Investigative Officer (IO) on the matter concerning the new exhibits, like the travel documents and a bundle of Safaricom documents that the accused produced during the defence hearing,” prosecutor Gichui told the court.

Further, she requested an adjournment and urged the court to direct the defence team to provide them with copies of all the new documents presented to court, stating that they will form her basis of cross-examination.

The matter will be mentioned on June 11, 2025, for further directions.