Obado’s PA tells court DNA confirmed he was not responsible for Sharon’s pregnancy

The second accused person in Sharon Otieno’s murder case, Michael Juma Oyamo, who was the personal assistant to the former Migori Governor Okoth Obado, has told the court that police conducted a DNA test on him and the governor’s lover’s fetus.
During the defence hearing at the Milimani High Court, Oyamo revealed that police directed a DNA test to be done on him to ascertain whether he could be the father of the deceased baby.
Appearing before Justice Cecilia Githua on Wednesday, May 21, 2025, Oyamo stated that the report presented to the court revealed that he was not the biological father of the child the deceased was carrying.
He further told the court that they had no relationship with the deceased that could have led them to get intimate.
Introduction meeting
Oyamo also told the court that he came to know Sharon in July 2018, through rumours and later through two gentlemen who called him seeking an appointment with his boss, then the governor of Migori, Okoth Obado.
“Towards the end of July 2018, I received a call from a new number and the person introduced himself as Honourable Mula, and he asked me whether I was the PA to the Governor of Migori County, to which I confirmed I was,” Oyamo told the court.
In his narration, he said that Mula proceeded and told him that he had been reaching out to the Governor in vain and asked him if he was able to connect them.
In his response, Oyamo told him that he was not able to do that unless he opens up about what he wanted from the Governor.

After back and forth, the accused said that Mula sensed that he would not get a through pass to the former County boss, and went ahead and revealed that there was a lady who had a romantic relationship with the Governor and was pregnant for him.
He revealed that the lady had reached out to him for assistance after unsuccessful trials of reaching out to Obado failed.
Mula told Oyamo that they had also contacted a journalist who was going to publish their story if his boss did not act. He then told him that the journalist would call him to explain their predicament and hung up the phone.
“When I asked him what the story was about, he said the lady was pregnant and the Governor had abandoned her, so they had sought a journalist’s intervention to publish the story for them to get the Governor’s attention,” Oyamo narrated to the court.
According to Oyamo, ten minutes later, a new number called him, and the man introduced himself as XYZ. He asked him where he got his number from, and he said he had gotten it from his colleague who was working with the Governor’s communication office.
It also emerged that after the XYZ call, the late Sharon also called Obado’s aide, and after they talked, he assured them that he would talk to his boss and get back to them.
Later, the accused informed his boss, who told him he was already aware of the issue and he was handling the situation, revealing that honourable John Mbadi had given him the XYZ (journalist) contact.
“My lady, it took me some time to process what I had been told, then I got the courage and told my boss about the matter, who then told me that John Mbadi had called him and had given him the XYZ phone number,” Oyamo told the court.
Welfare money
After two to three days, the accused told the court that his boss gave him Ksh200,000 in cash and instructed him to take it to Mula.
On reaching their meeting point, he found the late Lawrence Mula in the company, XYZ and the lady, and on handing over the money to him, he instructed him to give it to the lady because it was meant for her welfare.
On August 15, 2018, Oyamo was sent again by the boss for the second time to take Ksh100,000 to Mula for Sharon’s welfare.
However, the following day, he received a call from Sharon telling him an issue had emerged between Mula and XYZ; the journalist was complaining about him meeting Mula in his absence.
In his response, the PA told Sharon that he had clear instructions from his boss to hand over the money to Mula. He then called Mula to know what had happened, who told him they had quarrelled over the phone with XYZ.
“Mula told me they had exchanged words through phone calls, and it was because I had met him alone and gave him the cash, which he gave Sharon, yet they had agreed that any meeting from the Governor’s side, they should all be there,” Oyamo told the court.
Their fallout made Sharon seek intervention through the Governor, and she reached out to Oyamo to get them an appointment with Obado to settle the issue.
The court adjourned the hearing until Thursday, May 22, 2025, at 9:00 am.