‘May stomach ache kill you!’ -Professor Uju Anya curses billionaire Jeff Bezos for criticizing her tweet against Queen Elizabeth
Nigerian-born professor of applied linguistics at Carnegie Mellon University, Professor Uju Anya, has blasted the world’s richest man, Jeff Bezos after he criticized her caustic comment about the late Queen Elizabeth.
While the British monarch was in the throes of death, Professor Anya took to her Twitter to write: “I heard the chief monarch of a thieving ra*ping genocidal empire is finally dying. May her pain be excruciating.”
The tweet was received with shock from many quarters. Twitter pulled the tweet for violating their guidelines.
Amazon founder, Bezos quoted the tweet and wrote: “This is someone supposedly working to make the world better? I don’t think so. Wow!”
Professor Anya saw the tweet and responded with an Igbo curse: “Otoro gba gbuo gi”, meaning, “May stomach ache kill you!” Another Igbo person said it could also mean “May diarrhoea kill you!”
See her full tweet below:
