This will soon be forgotten and only close relatives will remember the fate of Sharon . The story will be interred with her broken body.

I differ. The media will keep this story very alive because it touches on a journalist. Barrack would have been killed if he didn't jump off the moving car. For this reason the media is and will keep hitting back at Obado by giving this story prominence and in solidarity with Barrack.

Details have emerged on the kidnap of Nation journalist Barrack Oduor in Migori County on Monday evening.

Mr Oduor, who narrowly escaped death, is recovering at Aga Khan Hospital in Kisumu.

Here is the timeline of the attack:

5pm: Sharon, the woman associated with Migori Governor Okoth Obado, calls Barrack Oduor that Michael Oyamo, Mr Obado's personal assistant, has been sent by the county boss with a response to an alleged scandal.

5:45pm: Barrack meets Sharon at Rodi Kopany market, where the meeting was scheduled to take place, before Mr Oyamo informs the woman that the venue has been changed to Rongo town, Migori County, about 30 kilometres away.

6:20pm: Barrack and Sharon take seats at Graca Hotel in Rongo to wait for Mr Oyamo.

7:20pm: Mr Oyamo calls Sharon and asks if Barrack is present and proposes change of venue one more time.

7:30pm: Mr Oyamo arrives at Graca Hotel, visits a toilet and returns with a suggestion that they move to a different venue if he is to disclose any meaningful information from Mr Obado to Barrack.

7:35pm: The trio leave the hotel to the car park where a black car is parked. Mr Oyamo ushers them into the car with two male occupants, a driver and co-driver. Mr Oyamo, Barrack and Sharon take the back seats.

7:37pm: The car moves and stops about 50 metres from the hotel. It is parked by the roadside where two men with headgears enter as Mr Oyamo alights. The strangers, who are not introduced by Mr Oyamo, sand-witch the two and order them to switch off their mobile phones and hand them, together with their personal effects, to the driver. They oblige and the car speeds away towards Homa Bay town.

8:28pm: The two men sandwiching Barrack and Sharon start harassing them around Nyangweso market along Homa Bay-Kisumu road, about 70 kilometres from Rongo town. They inform the duo they were being taken to see Mr Obado.

8:30pm: One of the strangers seated next to Barrack starts to attack and strangle him. He struggles in self-defence and jumps out of the speeding car. He sustains serious bruises on his knees and hands. Barrack escapes into the nearby bushes and moves to a homestead around Nyangweso. The vehicle stops about 100 metres away and he sees the two rushing back on foot. He, however, manages to escape to the homestead.

8:35pm: A Good Samaritan at the home drives Barrack to Adiedo Police Post where he hands him to the police. Barrack is later moved in a police car to Kendu Bay Police Station where he records his statement OB Number 41/04/09/2018.

Tuesday, 1am: Barrack is picked up by his colleagues from Kisumu bureau (Aggrey Mutambo and Justus Ochieng') and rushed to Aga Khan Hospital.

@hardwood, you still have not been able to see the hand of the journalist in the whole saga?

Let us start from here; A couple of days back before the murder of the young lady, she had already fled to Dar esalam. She was lured back by the journalist and the actors played their roles more like armatures.
Personally I think the court of public opinion is looking north for the killers while the killers are actually in the south...

Now that the emotions have died down,can we have some answers?

It is not like that @ hardwood. Look at it this way. For any ordinary salon car, the space between the front seat and the back rest of the back seat is about two and a half feet. The space between the front seat (when it is occupied) is just about a foot. When an adult passenger occupies the back seat, the space available between the front seat and the chest of the passenger is about one and a half foot while the space from the same is less than half a foot to the knee. This is the reason why if any passengers on back seat sitted between other passengers on the right and left hand side want to alight, those passengers on either extreme sides have to alight first in order to avail the necessary manouvring space for the alighting passenger because the space is too small.

Think about that first as we continue to unravel the mystery...

This is my speculation ...

Things were not going well between Sharon and the governor and perhaps each party had threatened the other with all manner of things. To cover her bases, at some point, Sharon contacted Barrack and told him she had a juicy, scandalous story about the governor. However, things started looking iffy for her so she decided to escape to TZ. While there, Mr. Oyamo contacted her and managed to lure her back to KE, probably with promises that the governor's stance had softened. So she decided to come back to KE to meet with Oyamo but because she is a smart lady, she decided to go to the meeting with Barrack - maybe he was to pretend to be a friend of hers.

So Sharon and Barrack get to the market at Rodi Kopany as planned and wait for Oyamo, who calls and finds out that Sharon has come with Barrack. Oyamo decides this might hinder his plans to kidnap her easily (market + 2 people to kidnap + witnesses = chances the crowds will help the two and maybe kill him and his associates). So he suggests a change of location to one which he things will be easier to manage.

So Sharon and Barrack head to the hotel in Rongo and wait for Oyamo. This time he arrives but suggests another location to which they will travel together (this is how he has planned he will get them in a car to kidnap them). Prior to heading out he excuses himself to use the toilet where he makes a phone call letting his associates in the car what the situation is.

Barrack is only caught up in this mess because Oyamo did not know what Sharron had told him already, and there's no way Oyamo could have separated the two without raising suspicion. He also wanted to write a juicy story ... but we can't really blame him for that can we?

That's how this looks to me thanks to the many movies I have watched.

True. Nothing new here, learnings from some happenings from before with some statistic named Mercy Keino and some other gafana. Kenya moved on, DCI moved on, only the family remembers.