“I Don’t Feel Safe Anymore” – Prof. Uju Anya Says After Her Anti-Queen Elizabeth Tweet

Uju Anya, an American professor of Nigerian descent, has alleged that since posting a tweet on the late Queen Elizabeth II on Thursday, her life has been in danger.

Anya, a professor of second language acquisition at Carnegie Mellon University’s department of modern languages in the United States, spoke exclusively to The PUNCH on Sunday afternoon.

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The tweet was later removed from Twitter for breaking their “rules,” but Anya told The PUNCH that her account had also been “logged off” for the same reason.

She claimed that Jeff Bezos, the founder of Amazon, had incited the public against her and put her in danger.

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 Indigenous People of Biafra, which, according to her, is false.

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.”