A/HRC/7/3/Add.4 page 31 perpetrators, Mr. Ashon, Mr. Agist and Mr. Zaccari; and those senior officers who were under a duty to investigate as soon as there were reasonable grounds to believe that an act of torture had been committed, namely the Commissioner and Deputy Commissioner). He recommends that lighting is improved in the evening hours to enable officers to protect detainees against inter-prisoner violence. The Special Rapporteur is further concerned over the sanitary conditions, the lack of sufficient clean water, as well as the very limited quantity of food provided, and lack of medical treatment for the detainees. IV. NIGERIA POLICE FORCE, STATE CRIMINAL INVESTIGATION DEPARTMENT, PANTI, YABA, LAGOS, LAGOS STATE (Visited on 6 March 2007) 30. The Special Rapporteur was received by Mr. Olayinka B. Balogun, the Deputy Commissioner of the Panti CID. 31. General conditions and treatment in detention. The Special Rapporteur expresses with strong concern that this is one of the worst detention facilities he has ever seen. After a lengthy and heated discussion with the Deputy Commissioner, the Special Rapporteur was finally allowed to conduct private interviews with the detainees. When requesting entry to the “torture room”, the Deputy Commissioner and guards attempted to mislead the Special Rapporteur and guide him to another building. Access to the “torture room” was secured only by telephone instructions from the IGP, Mr. Sunday Ehindero. A. Cell behind Human Rights Desk 32. The cell is located at the end of a small corridor behind the human rights desk. The 72 male detainees accused of armed robbery inside have been there from five months to more than two years. The room is severely overcrowded, badly lit, and filthy. None of the detainees have left the cell since their arrival, have seen a lawyer or been visited by family members, who in many cases are not aware of their whereabouts. One detainee had been shot in the foot in the cell four weeks earlier. There are 16 female detainees held in the adjacent cell. 33. Eriemiatoe Bright, aged 26, Benin City, Edo State. On 26 February 2007, he was arrested at Barbeach and brought to the CID. On 2 March in the evening, he was tortured by four officers for almost two hours: suspended upside down in the “torture room”, beaten with a stick and a metal baton. He confessed, and was then brought to the cell behind the Human Rights Desk for medical treatment. Severe skin injuries were still visible at the time of the visit of the Special Rapporteur. He reports that torture is regularly practised. 34. Jakson Onyeukw, aged 24, Lagos. On 19 February 2006, he was arrested by the Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) in Ikeja, Lagos, on suspicion of having stolen Naira 11 million. Four days after the arrest he was shot with an AK-47 in his left and right foot by an officer named Kopra Friday. Denied medial treatment, Mr. Onyeukw treated himself in the cell by using a candle flame to cauterize his wound. He remained in incommunicado detention for three months, and his bank account and property were seized. From SARS he was transferred to CID Panti where he is awaiting trial.