Enugu-born businessman, Chief Emeka Omii, has told the heart-rending story of his miraculous survival after kidnappers shot him several times in the mouth, thigh and neck, for attempting to escape from where he was being held. Notwithstanding the fact that his body bears the ugly signs of his encounter with the merchants of death, Omii is exceedingly happy, and understandably so, to be alive to tell his story. To start with, Omii was stripped naked by the gang that abducted and threatened to waste him if he did not give them N50 million. To prove that it was not an empty threat, the kidnappers beat him black and blue; they blindfolded him, tied his hands and legs and left in the bush. But determined to live, Omii made brave efforts to escape from where he was being held, but was caught again by the kidnappers, who shot then him on the thigh, neck and mouth. Omii, who is based in Aba, the commercial nerve centre of Abia State, revealed that the encounter ...