A NEW KANSAS LAW HAS EFFECTIVELY INVALIDATED THE DRIVER’S LICENSES AND OTHER GOVERNMENT-ISSUED DOCUMENTS OF TRANSGENDER RESIDENTS, LEAVING MANY IN LEGAL AND PERSONAL LIMBO.(PHOTO).
Kansas driver’s license law puts some transgender residents in ID limbo A new Kansas law has effectively invalidated the driver’s licenses and other government-issued documents of transgender residents, leaving many in legal and personal limbo. Senate Bill 244, which went into effect immediately after the legislature overrode Gov. Laura Kelly’s veto, requires that the gender listed on a driver’s license align with the state’s binary definition of male and female. The law also directs the state registrar to “correct” birth certificates that do not match these definitions. Unlike similar restrictions in other states, Kansas’ law retroactively invalidates previously issued documents. Legal advocates warn that the law threatens the privacy and safety of transgender residents, forcing them to disclose their gender identity in situations ranging from employment applications to renting property or opening bank accounts. The law also restricts bathroom use to the sex assigned at birth and amen...
Justice Mohammed B.Idris of the Federal High Court,sitting in Ikoyi,Lagos,today April 27,2017 ordered the final forfeiture of the proceed of bribe given by former Petroleum Minister,Deziani Alison Maduekwe to some staff of the Independent National Electoral Commission,INEC in the build up to the 2015 General elections.The properties belonging to Christian Nwosu,the convict,are a landed property measuring 100ft by 80,lying and another situated at Okotomi layoutt,Obodogwugwu Quarters,Okpanam,Oshimili North LG and 100ft by 50,lying in the same local government area of Delta State.Also to be forfeited by Nwosu to the federal government is the sum of N5m {Five Million Naira} recovered from the convict.Nwosu and two others were earlier arraigned on April 5,2017 by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission,EFCC before Honourable Justice Idris on a 7-count charge bordering on receiving gratification to the tune of N264,880,000.00 {Two hundred and sixty four million,eight hundred and eighty thousand naira} in which the convict {Nwosu} pleaded guilty of reveiving N30m {thirty million naira} from the said campaign bribe money.The convict and two others,Yisa Olanrewaju Adedoyin and Tijani Bashir had on March 27,2015 allegedly received the slush bribe money from the former minister of Petroleum.Resources,Mrs Diezani Allison Madueke during the administration of the former president Goodluck Ebele Jonathan,in the build up to the 2015 general elections.The 2nd and 3rd accused persons,Adedoyin and Bashir,pleaded no guilty while Nwosu pleaded guilty to the charge against him.The Court adjourned the matter to May3,2017.More photos below.

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