Kidnappers of Lagos businessman reject N100m ransom,insist on N200m

Two weeks after the abduction of the Chairman of Cometstar Manufacturing Company, Sir James Uzochukwu Uduji by unknown gunmen in front of his residence at 7th Avenue in Festac town, Lagos, his abductors have insisted on collecting $1million or he dies. The minimum the naira equivalent of their demand will cost the victim's family is N220mil­lion.

His abductors were said to have laid an ambush at 72nd junction along 7th Avenue at a bad portion of the road close to Uduji's residence. As soon as he was sighted, the gunmen deliberately hit his car as in an accident scenario, which forced the driver to stop to ascertain the extent of damage. In the process, the gunmen opened fire, shot the driver and drove off with Chief Uduji to an unknown des­tination.

Saturday Sun reliably gathered that his abductors have since demanded the sum of one million dollars ($1M) as ransom.

"They held him for more than a month until we were able to raise N80million. It was when they discovered that my uncle had sold his land just to raise the money that they released him. He has left the country with his entire family. They picked him up at 7th Avenue during the day. We couldn't tell the police because their threats were real. They are too coordinated that they kept monitoring every member of the family and giving us update. It's been happening; we were the first and others have been picked up same way after," he said.




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