Canadian citizen held for months after border agents dismiss papers as fake
Source: The Guardian
Olajide Ogunye, 47, is suing for $10m after eight months in custody despite producing citizenship documents and a government-issued health card
Leyland Cecco in Toronto
Thu 14 Jun 2018 08.41 EDT First published on Thu 14 Jun 2018 04.00 EDT
A Canadian man is suing the country’s government after he was arrested by border agents and detained for eight months – despite producing evidence of his citizenship.
Olajide Ogunye, 47, is seeking $10m in compensation from the Canadian government after he spent months incarcerated in what his lawyer has described as a “profoundly disturbing” case of mistaken identity.
Ogunye was approached by border agents and detained outside his Toronto home in June 2016, even though he produced citizenship papers and a government-issued health card.
Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jun/14/canadian-citizen-sues-government-detention
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They need better ways to establish a person's identity. Especially when there are friends and family confirming who he is.
Better the Canadian government than ICE. ICE would have sent him to Nigeria long ago, burned his documents, and told him to suck it up and stop whining. 
