••• SAYS NO REGRET ABOUT TWEET WISHING QUEEN EXCRUCIATING DEATH
•••May Cholera Kill You, She Tells Amazon Founder, Bezos
The US-based Nigerian Professor, Uju Anya, who wished Queen Elizabeth an excruciating death on a death bed is implacable.
Anya said on Saturday that those criticizing her tweet are ignorant of the history of Nigeria where she comes from.
The Prof insisted that she has no regret whatsoever for her action despite the outrage it had triggered in countries especially in the Commonwealth.
She insisted that her family like all Igbo families lost loved one in the Nigerian Civil War which the British Government could have averted during the meeting in Aburi, Ghana.
She lamented that the British encouraged Gowon to prosecute the war because they did not what another Japan in Africa.
The Carnegie Mellon University professor said that the Igbo and Africans and indeed the 56 Commonwealth countries need justice and they must speak up.
The Professor in the Department of Modern Languages said that while she might lose friends, connections, research associates and others, she is not affected by the controversial tweet which according to her is celebrated in some countries.
According to her, many have reacted with condemnation of her tweet because they feel as a woman of honour, she should not say the truth.
She said, “A journey of a thousand miles starts with a step as rightly put. In the past few days I have being the global topic of discourse not that my assertions were manipulated but because I am a woman of honour, I should shy from the truth.
“It’s pertinent to note that I have received backlash, condemnation, criticism and all sort of attacks because I made an attempt to unravel the hidden truth.
“I am on the verge of losing my friends from the West, my colleagues and associates in the field of research. I have been subsequently condemned and referred to my tweets as unguided utterances from the mischievous scholar but I laugh because they mostly come from a sect that are ignorant of pre-colonial, colonial and post-colonial history of my home country-Nigeria.
“I must appreciate your love and support on the fight against injustice as we all dream for a world of equitable justice and fairness. I am not moved with the pressure and threat coming from mostly my Western associates as “The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of convenience and comfort, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy,” Martin Luther King, Jr.
“Engage your friends in the discourse, let’s interact together and find a strategy to achieve our dream as African people. Invite more people.”
“I am very happy over the awareness I’ve created 48 hours ago. The likes of Jeff Bezos and many others have reacted. Questions are now being asked about the “British Empire.
“Factually, Ojukwu and Gowon had a meeting in Ghana, to avert this sad history. But because the British empire which is now under the leadership of King Charles lll were paranoia, they influenced Gowon to go ahead simply because they don’t want another Japan in Africa.
“The history books are there. “There was a country” by Chinua Achebe is there for facts!. “The Biafra story” by Frederick Forsyth and many others.
“Let me also state it once again that my family was a victim. There is no family in Igbo land who did not have a share of this sad history. Till this day, there’s no apology!!! Again, I only dropped a tweet. The Irish people celebrated it with fireworks. You can check #Irishtwitter hashtag on twitter for emphasis.
“We must speak up! The Igbo needs justice!. Africa needs justice! The 56 commonwealth countries need justice!”
Anya shot into the frontline of global attacks and solidarity when on hearing the news of the deteriorating health of the Queen on Thursday shortly before she breathed her last that she wish her an excruciating painful death.
“I heard the chief monarch of a thieving raping genocidal empire is finally dying. May her pain be excruciating,” Anya had tweeted.
The management of l Twitter deleted the tweet on the ground that it violated its rules and the outrage followed.
While some condemned her over the tweet, others stood in solidarity with her.
Among top global figures who showed resentment to the tweet was the founder of Amazon, Jeff Bezos who wrote, “This is someone supposedly working to make the world better?” “I don’t think so. Wow.”
Anya’s reaction to the tweet by Bezos left nobody in doubt that a woman nursing a wound of ages was out to bare her fangs.
“Otoro gba gbue gi” which means ‘Cholera kill you.’ May everyone you and your merciless greed have harmed in this world remember you as fondly as I remember my colonisers.”
In her response to her critics, she had said in another tweet, “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.“
With Reports From Sahara Reporters
