Never make enemies in high office, especially in Kenya

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." T
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.

I had a dream last night ....

I dreamt I was having a long conversation with Suaad Hagi Mohamud. It went like this:
Dodo: Suaad I am glad you are now back here with us. It must have been a bad experience for you
SHM: Yes, yes it was very very bad.
Dodo: I read somewhere that you are ill because of the 1 week you spent in Nairobi's Langata Women's Prison.
SHM: Yes that is true
Dodo: Were the other inmates too suffering from respiratory problems like yourself?
SHM : I don't know
Dodo: You know... I am just asking so I can write to Human Rights Org and the UN about Nairobi's prisons SHM: I don't know
Dodo: Okay, let's forget that. Can you tell me what exactly the Canadian woman of Egyptian background, at the CHC in Nairobi said to you?
SHM: None of your business.
Dodo: She said that?
SHM: No - I am saying that to you.
 Dodo: Okay, let's forget that too. Why do you think all this happened with the CHC in Nairobi and the Kenyan authorities?
 SHM: Because I am black
Dodo: Uh??? I don't get it. You mean you go to a black country and they do this to you because they do not like their own color?
SHM: No. I am saying Canadian Govt let it happen because I am black
Dodo: Ummmm ... you know that is not true... but let's move on to the good part now. You will become a Millionairess!! If you win the suit, that is.
SHM: Yes. But money is not important to me, I just want to tell the evil Harper govt not to do same to other people.
Dodo: Er... Sauud ... er... all those bloggers who were writing on your behalf every day, will you give them a small something if you get your 2.5M dollars from evil Harper.
SHM: Of course I will. They said every day that evil Harper and his govt are mean and bad to brown and black people. They are right you know.
Dodo: You don't think they said all that because they are from the opposition parties?
SHM: No. Of course not. They are good people you know. Harper is evil.
 Dodo: How much will you give to the two bloggers who were writing so much about you ?
SHM: None of your business.
Dodo: How much will you give to the reporters of the MSM ?
SHM: None of your business.
Dodo: Did your lawyer get any advice from the Arar's lawyers or from Arar himself?
SHM: None of your business
Dodo: Do you know that the two bloggers who were writing about you, they never write about the plight of other black and brown people in Kenya and anywhere else.
SHM: So what. Those other people are not Canadian, so they don't count.
Dodo: Even if they are from your own country of Somalia?
SHM: I am Canadian and evil Harper does not like black and brown people and I want to teach him a lesson. I don't care about anything else.
Dodo: Did your lawyer tell you that?
SHM: None of your business.
Dodo: How much will you donate to the NDP?
SHM: None of your business.
Dodo: I too wrote about you, but only once, will I get something ?
SHM: Get lost. No soup for you!!
Dodo: Oh - you like Seinfeld too. Something in common at last.

 And then I woke up. Hope this won't be a recurring dream.