via CanadianNewsReader: Canadian Government asks Kenyan Govt to drop charges against Suaad Hagi Mohamud
"Kenyan authorities have been asked to drop charges against a Canadian woman who has been stranded in the country for nearly three months, her Toronto lawyer said Wednesday.
Suaad Hagi Mohamud, 31, attempted to return to Canada on May 21, when a Kenyan official claimed she was not the same person pictured on her passport.
After going to the Canadian High Commission in an effort to prove her identity with numerous pieces of identification, officials voided her passport and sent her to Kenyan authorities for prosecution. She ended up having to face court proceedings and pay a bond to stay out of jail. Her travel documents were also seized."
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he question now is: The officer in charge at the Canadian High Commission, did he/she have it in for Suaad Mohamud too? And how could the CHC let the Kenya authorities prosecute Suaad Mohamud without looking into her case from all angles and the glaringly obvious evidence of her Canadian nationality.
A real sorry state of affairs. This woman provided the authorities with not only her DNA samples but with all sorts of evidence like Toronto laundry receipts, her health card, you name it she had it. Regretably I have to quote here from a lefty blogger who said long back: "...the facial recognition experts have weighed in on her side. And then her DNA test proved beyond a shadow of a doubt who she was." and yet, and yet ......
Are we missing something here? Anyway, she should be back in Canada soon and I bet she will never go back to Kenya ever again.
Wednesday, August 12, 2009
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Is there any truth to the rumour that the woman trying to re-enter Canada is actually the Canadian citizen's Kenyan sister?
ReplyDeleteDNA samples were compared to the son's which would show a familial relationship - not neccesarily that she is the mother.
There is more to this story than we are being told in my opinion.
Nope, no truth to that rumour at all. DNA tests can pretty easily detect the difference between an Aunt and a Mother as well.
ReplyDeleteDoesnt anyone watch Maury?
ReplyDeleteDNA tests prove nothing other than she is related to persons who live here. I don't recall being required to provide a DNA test to get my passport, nor am I aware of any mechanism that collects DNA from new-born, or newly christened Canadians. Is it inconceivable to consider that a person may have successfully entered Canada, originally, as an "impostor" with a passport not belonging to them, and subsequently, been properly detected whilst travelling abroad? Believe it or not, this sort of thing happens all the time. I'd be more concerned with trying to match her fingerprints to those that were taken when she immigrated here!
ReplyDeleteGadget - I migrated to Canada 14 years ago. My fingerprints were never taken during the process of getting all the required documentation sent over to Canada. I doubt Suaad's fingerprints are on file anywhere in Canada. Canada's immigration and passport laws are far too lenient and have far too many porous loopholes and trying to contain the damage after the fact makes for the kind of situations that Suaad is now facing.
ReplyDeleteThe Foreign Affairs dept should come clean and tell us the general public, about all/any evidence they had on which they based their first premise, premise that the woman was an imposter. The fact that they are mum on this, tells me they made a misjudgement.