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Before the announcement of the Queen's death, the associate professor passed a comment that Twitter had to take down.

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Bayo Wahab

<h2>Uju Anya, a Nigerian Associate Professor at Carnegie Mellon University in the United States has been a subject of discussion on social media following her comment about Queen Elizabeth II.</h2>

<p>Before the passing of the Queen of the United Kingdom was announced on September 8, 2022, Anya on her Twitter page wished the Queen an “excruciating” death.</p>

<p><em>“I heard the chief monarch of a thieving raping genocidal empire is finally dying. May her pain be excruciating,”</em> she tweeted.</p>

<p>The Nigerian professor made the comment shortly after the palace announced that the Queen was under medical supervision at Balmoral Castle in Scotland.</p>

<p>In another tweet, Anya alleged that the Queen supported the Nigerian government with arms and ammunition to fight the Igbos during a civil war that lasted for three years in Nigeria.</p>

<p><em>“If anyone expects me to express anything but disdain for the monarch who supervised a government that sponsored the genocide that massacred and displaced half my family and the consequences of which those alive today are still trying to overcome, you can keep wishing upon a star,</em>” she said.</p>

<p>Although Twitter has taken down the controversial tweet, the statement continues to generate reactions online as some agreed and defended her, while others condemned her mocking a dying monarch.</p>

<p>Reacting to her tweet, Amazon founder,<strong> Jeff Bezos</strong>, said he does not think someone whose job is to make the world better should put out such a tweet.</p>

<div class="embed"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">This is someone supposedly working to make the world better? I don’t think so. Wow. <a href="https://t.co/2zoi6CdFMq">https://t.co/2zoi6CdFMq</a></p>&mdash; Jeff Bezos (@JeffBezos) <a href="https://twitter.com/JeffBezos/status/1567918581614247937?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 8, 2022</a></blockquote>
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<p><em>“This is someone supposedly working to make the world better? I don’t think so. Wow.</em>” he tweeted.</p>

<p>The management of Carnegie Mellon University, where Anya works as a lecturer has also distanced itself from the tweet saying it does not condone the 'offensive and objectionable' message the professor published on her Twitter page.&nbsp;</p>

<div class="embed"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="ca" dir="ltr">A statement regarding recent social media posts by Uju Anya. <a href="https://t.co/NinpPa4rZg">pic.twitter.com/NinpPa4rZg</a></p>&mdash; Carnegie Mellon University (@CarnegieMellon) <a href="https://twitter.com/CarnegieMellon/status/1567975991330615297?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 8, 2022</a></blockquote>
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<p><strong>Bashir Ahmad,</strong> Special Assistant on Digital Communications to President Muhammadu Buhari has also reacted to the controversy, saying Anya’s tweet was <em>“unfortunately unnecessary.</em>”</p>

<div class="embed"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Don’t know that Uju Anya until I saw some of her tweets for the first time on my timeline this evening, her tweets about late Queen Elizabeth II were so unfortunately unnecessary.</p>&mdash; Bashir Ahmad (@BashirAhmaad) <a href="https://twitter.com/BashirAhmaad/status/1567979441909035008?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 8, 2022</a></blockquote>
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<p>He tweeted,<em> “Don’t know that Uju Anya until I saw some of her tweets for the first time on my timeline this evening, her tweets about late Queen Elizabeth II were so unfortunately unnecessary.”</em></p>

<p>While many condemned Anya’s tweet, there are others who believe she was not wrong. </p>

<div class="embed"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Uju Anya did nothing wrong, you cannot whip a child and at the same time expect the child not to cry.<br><br>The Crown committed Atrocities in Africa.<br>In our Homeland.<br><br>Before you condemn Professor Uju Anya, research her background and you will find the story of her people, Biafra.</p>&mdash; Kitikpa ❤️‍🔥 (@Ulaga_Igwe) <a href="https://twitter.com/Ulaga_Igwe/status/1567938735911669761?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 8, 2022</a></blockquote>
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<div class="embed"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Uju Anya did not lie. Her choice of words may be faulted but it came from a place of generational pain. <br><br>Again, she did not lie.</p>&mdash; Obumneme Anyafulugo (@_Anyafulugo) <a href="https://twitter.com/_Anyafulugo/status/1567979097372098560?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 8, 2022</a></blockquote>
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<div class="embed"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Prof Uju Anya is a female Igbo professor of linguistics at Carnegie Mellon University, USA.<br><br>She reminded the British govt of how they ganged-up with Nigeria to deliberately starve to death millions of innocent children of Biafra; all because of hatred &amp; crude oil. <a href="https://t.co/Xa3wUh5jl8">pic.twitter.com/Xa3wUh5jl8</a></p>&mdash; Dr Maduka Chinemelum Ogwueleka MBBS, MSc, MRCP(UK) (@MadukaOgwueleka) <a href="https://twitter.com/MadukaOgwueleka/status/1568111792999522304?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 9, 2022</a></blockquote>
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<div class="embed"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">I&#39;m not a fan of Uju Anya but she&#39;s hitting some key notes. The queen supported and supervised the near genocide of an ethnic group. Families are still grieving. She has valid points.</p>&mdash; Chuxs (@CGOnuks) <a href="https://twitter.com/CGOnuks/status/1567956056705306627?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 8, 2022</a></blockquote>
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<div class="embed"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">To all peoples who are affected by the evils of colonialism. It is time to stand by our sister, Uju Anya. These people must not use her as a scapegoat for saying her mind after starving three million of our children to death in Biafra.</p>&mdash; Michael Chièdoziém Chúkwúderà (@ChukwuderaEdozi) <a href="https://twitter.com/ChukwuderaEdozi/status/1568111484437204992?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 9, 2022</a></blockquote>
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<div class="embed"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Most people have said the Uju Anya is a woman full of hate judging from her previous tweets and online persona<br><br>I have no idea who she is, not my business but yesterday’s tweet was from deep pain- one that NoBODY can understand. <br><br>Let Irish people talk first and see…</p>&mdash; ＤＯＣＴＯＵＲ (@wakawaka_doctor) <a href="https://twitter.com/wakawaka_doctor/status/1568102179839397889?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 9, 2022</a></blockquote>
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