by Eze Eluchie
Clearly International Criminal Court (ICC) Prosecutor, Fatou Bensouda, acted well outside her brief and authority when she issued her statement on Nigeria's forthcoming elections (see video link below), further buttressing believes in several quarters that the ICC has an institutionalized bias and penchant to 'look into' African affairs whilst paying little or no attention whatsoever to ongoing commission of more heinous crimes in other parts of the world.
Madam Prosecutor should try to focus on the core mandate of the ICC: Genocides, War Crimes and Crimes Against Humanity. Electoral crimes or violence ensuing therefrom which our domestic legal and security system can contain is certainly not an issue for the ICC - it was this same disrespect for the sovereignty of African States that led the ICC on its degenerating wild-goose efforts at prosecuting the sitting President of the Republic of Kenya, Uhuru Kenyatta.
To discerning observers, particularly on the African continent, the real mandate of the ICC, conspicuously Afrocentric, is increasingly getting suspicious.
Prosecutor Bensouda should remember that she works for the International Criminal Court (ICC) and not the Africa Criminal Court (ACC)!!
ICC's Bensouda's statement:
Picture: ICC Prosecutor, Fatou Bensouda.
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