Law/Judiciary
ECOWAS Gets Seven Court Justices
The ECOWAS Judicial
Council, comprising the Chief Justices of Member States, has approved the recommendations of its ad hoc committee on the recruitment of seven new judges.
A statement issued on Saturday by the ECOWAS Spokesman, Mr Sunny Ugoh, said that the new judges would replace those whose terms had expired at the Community Court of Justice.
The Tide source reports that the council is charged with among other duties, the recruitment and discipline of the judges of the Court.
It said that the incoming judges, from Burkina Faso, Guinea, Guinea Bissau, Liberia, Mali, Nigeria and Senegal, would replace those from Benin, Cote d’Ivoire, Cape Verde, Ghana, Niger, Nigeria and Togo.
The statement confirmed that the judges were recommended by an eight-member ad hoc committee which screened the 350 judges who applied for the positions.