No Game, Consul

Bribing customs officials in Kenya is not uncommon, but while Mohamud was arrested and thrown in jail by Kenyan officials, it was by request of the Canadian Border Service Agency—the agency that declared her an impostor. On your way out of the country, you're dealing with Canadian officials. On the way in, you're dealing with officials from the country you're entering.

Why? Is it so hard to comprehend that a representative of the Canadian government would ask for bribes?

Sorry, folks, I'm just reading the comments now and I've corrected the article to reflect that it was the KLM official and not the immigration official.

What happened is that the airline official, upon allegedly being rejected a bribe, sent Mohamud to airport exit control (Kenyan authorities), who immediately detained her. The following day, the High Commission of Canada concurred, labelling her an impostor and voiding her passport without launching their own investigation, despite Mohamud providing more-than-sufficient valid ID on the spot. The High Commission then recommended to Kenyan authorities that she be prosecuted.

About a month later, Lawrence Cannon, Canada's Minister of Foreign Affairs, actually said that there was "no tangible proof" that Mohamud was Canadian, again, despite extensive proof that she was and despite full cooperation from Mohamud to confirm her identity. This is the man in Ottawa whose job it is to be responsible for Canadians travelling abroad.

Mohamud's false arrest was the fault of the Kenyan authorities, but its perpetuation longer than a day or two is the fault of Canadian authorities, who not only allowed her to go to prison, but didn't even bother to see if it was a result of well-known corruption at Kenyatta airport, and then seemingly lollygagged with other mysterious priorities while she festered for more than two months in bureaucratic limbo, living in Kenyan slum hotels, unable to return to home to her family. I think that's worth a lawsuit, big-time.