John Goddard (Toronto Star) Suaad Mohamud spent her first full day back in Canada undergoing hospital tests for an ailment nagging her since an unjust stint in a Kenyan jail.

“She’s really sick,” her lawyer Raoul Boulakia said yesterday of the woman who arrived home to a hero’s welcome after spending three months trying to prove her identity to Canadian authorities in Africa and Ottawa.

Mohamud has been losing weight and suffering respiratory problems since her eight-day incarceration June 3-11 at Nairobi’s Langata Women’s Prison, Boulakia said.

Chest x-rays were to determine whether she might have pneumonia or tuberculosis, he said. Another possibility might be some kind of infectious tropical disease, which would be harder to diagnose and treat.

“She has had no proper medical care in Kenya,” Boulakia said.

Mohamud had been stuck in Kenya since May 21, when local authorities arrested her for not looking like her four-year-old passport photo and, after a botched investigation, Canadian consular officials agreed.

DNA results released Monday vindicated her after a three-month ordeal, opening the way for her return home to her 12-year-old son.

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Source: Toronto Star

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