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American professor of Nigerian descent, Uju Anya has voiced out over threat to her life since the day she tweeted negative things about late Queen Elizabeth ll.
Professor Uju is a Professor of Second Language Acquisition, Department of Modern Languages, Carnegie Mellon University, United States of America.
Anya had made some unsavoury statement on Twitter about the Queen Elizabeth while still on the sick bed before she finally gave up the ghost.
Her tweet reads in part “I heard the chief monarch of a thieving raping genocidal empire is finally dying. May her pain be excruciating.”
After series of backlash from Twitter users and from the public, her tweet has been been taken down by the micro-blogging site.
Anya also confirmed to newsmen that her Twitter account has been yanked off for same reason.
The professor of Second Language Acquisition has also lambasted billionaire businessman Amazon founder, Jeff Bezos, of inciting the public against her and making her vulnerable to verbal attacks.
Bezos, rumoured to be a huge donator to the school Anya teaches, had quoted her post, saying, “This is someone supposedly working to make the world better? I don’t think so. Wow.”
Anya had replied Bezos, “May everyone you and your merciless greed have harmed in this world remember you as fondly as I remember my colonizers.”
Anya has further explained that due to the incidence, some persons have started impersonating her and linking her to the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra.
She disclosed that she doesn’t have any link with IPOB.
She said, “I feel like my life is in danger. I don’t feel safe anymore because of these lies being peddled around against me. I left Facebook four years ago. I don’t have a Facebook account. People are putting out fake statements, saying I am a member and financier of IPOB or Independent Biafra or any political candidate like that, and they are using a fake Facebook account that bears my name. It is a lie. There is nothing like that.
“It is urgent that the world knows that these people are trying to put me in harm’s way. Nothing that anybody sees with my name on Facebook is true. I am not a member of IPOB.
“They are using me for political movements and messages that I do not align with, and they are seriously damaging me and my safety.
“This is going to be a huge problem for me. What if the Nigerian government considers me a terrorist and wants to arrest me? They are putting my life in danger.”
However, Professor Anya said she has resolved to only speak to just One News medium in the country to avoid being misquoted.