Foreign and Diaspora Affairs Cabinet Secretary Alfred Mutua has lauded the Romanian Government for recalling its envoy to Kenya Dragos Tigau following his monkey slur.
Romania’s ambassador Dragos Viorel Tigau who allegedly compared a monkey with Africans during a meeting in the capital was recalled on Saturday, June 10, according to the Romanian foreign ministry.
Dragos Viorel Tigau was at a United Nations building in Nairobi on April 26 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”.
“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.
