Nigerian-born American Professor, Uju Anya, has revealed that her life has been under threat since her recent tweet about the late Queen Elizabeth II.
Anya, who is a Professor of Second Language Acquisition, Department of Modern Languages, Carnegie Mellon University, United States of America, made this known while speaking to The PUNCH.
Recall that Anya, at the news of the Queen’s failing health tweeted: “I heard the chief monarch of a thieving raping genocidal empire is finally dying. May her pain be excruciating.”
Though the tweet had been deleted for violating ‘Twitter rules’, Anya told The PUNCH that her twitter account had also been ‘logged off’ of the micro-blogging site for that same reason.
She alleged that Amazon founder, Jeff Bezos, incited the public against her and made her encounter harm.
Bezos, who according to reports is a huge donor to the school where Anya teaches, quoted her post and wrote: “This is someone supposedly working to make the world better? I don’t think so. Wow.”
Anya replied Bezos: “May everyone you and your merciless greed have harmed in this world remember you as fondly as I remember my colonisers.”
In a recent interview with The PUNCH, Anya noted that some people were impersonating her and had connected her to the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), which, according to her, is not true.
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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