Chief James Uduji, Chairman of Cometstar Cable released 42 days after as wife negoatiated release from Canada after $100 Million

Jubilation erupted in Isi-Achina and Achina Communities when the news of the release of Chief James Uduji Chairman of Cometstar cable Manufacturing Limited was released by his abductors after 42 days and huge ransom.
He was abducted  on  September 7,  and on release his Lagos home has become a Mecca of sort as  friends and relatives have been trooping in to felicitate with him after his release. 
Uduji, who narrated his ordeal to www.odogwublog.com  when we visited, gave a vivid account of how he was kidnapped on his way back from  office by four heavily armed men, six weeks ago.
He claimed that while in captivity, his family was divided into three.   “I had just returned from Canada where I visited my wife who gave birth a month ago.  One week after , I was kidnapped. My other children were in boarding school.  My wife and I were communicating through my abductors.  They allowed me to communicate with her,”the victim narrated.
 “On the day I was kidnapped, I was returning home from my office.  That was around 4:30 pm, in broad daylight.  The abductors took me to an unknown place. I could not see anything or guess where I was because I was blindfolded throughout.  I was kidnapped by the four men close to my house. One of my drivers was driving the car while another sat with him in the front passenger seat. I sat at the rear.
One of  the drivers was shot, while the windscreen injured me at the  back. But, thank God, the shot driver survived. I was sleeping.  It was the sound of gunshots that woke me up and, immediately, the four armed men dragged me out of the vehicle into their own vehicle and zoomed off.
“I really thank God that I survived the ordeal because being in captivity for six weeks is  no joke. Not everyone can survive what I went through.   I also thank God for the lion heart he gave me to be able to go through the  trial.  The gunshots I heard helped me to stay strong for myself and my family.
“The six weeks were terrible.   I do not wish my enemy that kind of experience.   They actually gave me VIP treatment. I wasn’t beaten.  I was given whatever I wanted to eat.  I was allowed to shower once a day and that was only when I was not blindfolded.  I savoured a little bit of freedom. The abductors kept monitoring news both in the print and broadcast media, they read news papers frequently, and they knew what was going on in the outside world.  I was the only victim in my room, so I don’t know if there were other prisoners.  I know it wasn’t done in their right minds and I pray that God forgives them.
“The police did not do anything.  I was kidnapped 4:30pm, in broad daylight. The abductors shot into the air  and took me away and no policeman came.
“For security reasons, I don’t want to say the amount that was paid (as ransom) but my family  met their demands before I was released. Although the experience was terrible, I am not scared, neither do I have plans to relocate  from the country.  The police didn’t play any role in my release. Our security system is very poor.  My wife came back from Canada with our baby on Monday, the same day my abductors released me”.