Suaad Hagi Mohamud walked through customs into a crush of television cameras and cheering friends and neighbours today at Pearson International Airport, and wrapped her arms around her 12-year-old boy she expected to see three months ago.
Mohamud, who was visiting her mother in Kenya, was unable to leave the country after authorities said her lips did not match her four-year-old passport photo.
Canadian consular officials called the 31-year-old an impostor, voided her passport and turned her case over to Kenya for prosecution.
Other pieces of ID and fingerprints were handed over, but there was little movement until DNA tests – paid for by the Canadian government – validated her identity on Monday.
A judge in a Nairobi court dropped charges against Mohamud on Friday, and she boarded a plane later in the day bound for Toronto.
“I’m here for my own son,” she said trying to be heard over the din.
“It’s really something I missed. I’m glad my whole nightmare is over.”
It was a sensational homecoming, with police trying to control the crowd and other arriving passengers confused by the spectacle.
“We are not second-class citizens,” yelled one man waving Somali and Canadian flags.
“I’m glad I’m Canadian. I love this country,” he said.
Source:TheStar
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