Queens Elizabeth II: Prof Anya Raises Alarm, Says Life Threatened

Hamilton Nwosa
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Queens Elizabeth II: Prof Anya Raises Alarm, Says Life Threatened

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A Nigerian-born American professor, Uju Anya, who wished Queen Elizabeth II an “excruciating painful death” has raised an alarm that her life has been under threat since her Thursday tweet on the late Queen Elizabeth II.

This is even as the controversial lecturer denied having any links with the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB)

Anya, a Professor of Second Language Acquisition, Department of Modern Languages, Carnegie Mellon University, United States of America, spoke exclusively to The PUNCH on Sunday afternoon.

Anya, on Thursday, stoked public outrage when she tweeted that “I heard the chief monarch of a thieving raping genocidal empire is finally dying. May her pain be excruciating” at the news of the Queen’s ill health.

Although the tweet had since been deleted for violating ‘Twitter rules’, Anya confirmed that her account had also been ‘logged off’ of the micro-blogging site for the same reason.

She accused Amazon founder, Jeff Bezos, of inciting the public against her and putting her in harm’s way.

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 colonisers.”

In an interview with our correspondent on Sunday, Anya noted that some persons were impersonating her and had linked her to the proscribed group which, she vehemently denies.

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.

“Some online blogs have been peddling fake rumours about me. I have not issued any statement since Thursday. The PUNCH is the first and (will be) the only Nigerian medium I have spoken to.

“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.”

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