A Canadian woman who was stranded in Kenya for months over false claims she was an impostor is suing Ottawa for 2.5 million Canadian dollars (2.3 million US), she announced Friday. 'I don't care about money,' Suaad Hagi Mohamud, 31, told a press conference. 'I'm only going to court so this never happens to another Canadian citizen.' Mohamud's ordeal began when she traveled to Kenya to visit her mother. When she sought to board a plane to return to Canada in May, Kenyan immigration officials arrested and detained her for eight days, accusing her of identity fraud because her lips appeared different than those on the photograph in her four-year-old passport. She was only allowed to return to Canada last week after DNA tests proved her identity. Mohamud alleges in her lawsuit, filed on Friday, that the Canadian government's actions resulted in her being 'robbed of her identity, denied her rights as a Canadian citizen and abandoned to the whims of Kenyan authorities.' 'I was alone when my government let me down,' she told reporters. Ottawa, meanwhile, has launched an investigation into the Canada Border Services Agency's handling of Mohamud's case. 