A Pennsylvania-based Nigerian professor, Uju
Anya, on Thursday, traded words with Amazon founder, Jeff Bezos over Queen
Elizabeth II.
Uju made some scathing and unbecoming remarks about the British monarch after
news broke of her demise.
In a now deleted tweet, she wrote; ”I heard the chief monarch of a
thieving molesting genocidal empire is finally dying. May her pain be
excruciating.”
Bezos, who came across her tweet and thought it was distasteful, made reference
to her being a lecturer that is supposed to make the world a better place.
He quoted her tweet and wrote; ‘This is someone supposedly working to make the
world better? I don’t think so. Wow.”
But in response, Uju rained insults on the Forbes billionaire, both in Igbo and
English language.
”Otoro gba gbue gi. May everyone you and your
merciless greed have harmed in this world remember you as fondly as I remember
my colonizers,” she tweeted.
Queen Elizabeth II, the UK’s longest-reigning
monarch, died Thursday at Balmoral after 70 years on the throne.
She was 96.
The Queen ascended to the throne in 1952 and witnessed enormous social change.
A statement by Buckingham Palace on Sept. 8 said: “The Queen died
peacefully at Balmoral this afternoon.
“The King and the Queen Consort will remain at Balmoral this evening and will
return to London tomorrow.”
Following her demise, Prince Charles, her eldest son and the former Prince of
Wales, will lead the country in mourning as the new King.
BBC reports that the monarch’s family gathered at her Scottish estate on
Thursday, September 8th after concerns grew about her health.
Doctors had earlier placed the Queen under medical supervision and, in that
time, all her children travelled to Balmoral, near Aberdeen.
Queen Elizabeth II’s tenure as head of state traverses post-war austerity, the
transition from empire to Commonwealth, the end of the Cold War and the UK’s
entry into – and withdra
wal from – the European Union.
Her reign spanned 15 prime ministers starting with Winston Churchill, born in
1874, and including Liz Truss, who was appointed by the Queen earlier this
week.
The Queen was born Elizabeth Alexandra Mary Windsor, in Mayfair, London, on 21
April 1926.
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