{"id":239538,"date":"2026-07-26T05:57:35","date_gmt":"2026-07-26T03:57:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-waiguru-demands-duale-apology-over-deeply-regrettable-ethnic-profiling-remarks\/"},"modified":"2026-07-26T05:57:35","modified_gmt":"2026-07-26T03:57:35","slug":"kenya-waiguru-demands-duale-apology-over-deeply-regrettable-ethnic-profiling-remarks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-waiguru-demands-duale-apology-over-deeply-regrettable-ethnic-profiling-remarks\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya: Waiguru Demands Duale Apology Over &#8216;Deeply Regrettable&#8217; Ethnic Profiling Remarks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"36\">Nairobi \u2014 Kirinyaga Governor Anne Waiguru has demanded an apology from Health Cabinet Secretary Aden Duale over remarks widely criticised as ethnic profiling, describing his comments as &#8220;deeply regrettable,&#8221; &#8220;dangerous&#8221; and unworthy of a leader of his experience.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"29\">Waiguru, a senior Kenya Kwanza leader, said reducing the government&#8217;s political challenges to tribal prejudice risked undermining national unity, particularly as the country heads toward the 2027 General Election.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"39\">&#8220;The ethnic profiling&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202607240511.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 East Africa <a title=\"Kenya\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/east-africa\/kenya\/\">Kenya<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nairobi \u2014 Kirinyaga Governor Anne Waiguru has demanded an apology from Health Cabinet Secretary Aden Duale over remarks widely criticised as ethnic profiling, describing his comments as &#8220;deeply regrettable,&#8221; &#8220;dangerous&#8221; and unworthy of a leader of his experience. Waiguru, a senior Kenya Kwanza leader, said reducing the government&#8217;s political challenges to tribal prejudice risked undermining [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":188473,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[250],"tags":[258,256,11938,10914,6979,13536,15784,4688,430,257,35406,13354,9469,254,13732],"class_list":["post-239538","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kenya","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-apology","tag-deeply","tag-demands","tag-duale","tag-ethnic","tag-kenya","tag-kenya-news","tag-news","tag-profiling","tag-regrettable","tag-remarks","tag-south-africa-today","tag-waiguru"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239538","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=239538"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239538\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=239538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}