Kenya responds after Romania recalls ambassador Dragos Tigau over monkey slur
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Kenya through CS Mutua lauds Romania for recalling ambassador to Kenya Dragos Tigau over monkey remark
Kenya through CS Mutua lauds Romania for recalling ambassador to Kenya Dragos Tigau over monkey remark.
Foreign and Diaspora Affairs Cabinet Secretary Alfred Mutua, applauded the Romanian government for recalling Dragos Tigau, the country’s envoy to Kenya, after he made a monkey-related remark.
According to the Romanian foreign ministry, the ambassador of Romania Dragos Viorel Tigau was recalled on Saturday, June 10, following allegations that he had compared a monkey to an African at a meeting in the capital Nairobi.
On April 26, Dragos Viorel Tigau was in a conference room at a United Nations building in Nairobi when a monkey appeared at the window of the conference room.
“The African Group has joined us,” Tigau said, according to a note from the South Sudanese embassy in Kenya seen by the AFP news agency.
In his statement via Twitter on Sunday, Mutua said he was in conversation with the African Group, UN and Romanian Government since the “shocking and despicable occurrence”.
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“The envoy’s government has done the only right thing they could do. All African & black people will not accept the derogatory treatment that we have endured for centuries to continue being propagated anywhere.
Respect for all races and cultures is not an option but a must for all,” Mtua said.
On Saturday, Romania announced that it had begun “a procedure to recall its ambassador”.
“We deeply regret this situation and offer our apologies to all those who have been affected,” a statement from Romania’s foreign affairs ministry read.
“Any behaviours or comments of a racist nature are completely unacceptable,” it added, saying it hoped it would not affect its ties with African countries.
In 2014, Romania’s ambassador to Armenia was recalled after making anti-Semitic jokes about Jewish bosses and questioning the morality of same-sex relationships.
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