Oladimeji Ramon with agency report
A Nigerian judge, Judge Chile Eboe-Osuji, has been elected the President of the International Criminal Court, The Hague, Netherlands.
According to information on the ICC’s website, Eboe-Osuji was elected as President by his fellow judges on the ICC bench at a plenary session on Sunday, March 11, 2018.
He would head the court for a three-year term, ending in 2021.
Fifty-five-year-old Eboe-Osuji, who joined the ICC on December 16, 2011, will be working in his position as the ICC President, alongside Judge Robert Fremr, from Czech Republic; and Judge Marc Perrin de Brichambaut, from France, as the First and Second Vice-Presidents of ICC, respectively.
Eboe-Osuji, was quoted as saying that he was “deeply honoured to have been elected by my peers as President of the International Criminal Court.”
He said, “As I take up my duties, I feel…
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