A/HRC/7/3/Add.4 page 15 appear on the current list of inmates. Furthermore, according to the files of the Investigating Police Officer, CID Panti, on 12 March, Mr. John’s case (charge number - N/23/2007) was transferred to Magistrate Court No. 12, Ebute - Meta, Lagos. However, to date, no records related to this case ever reached the court. 46. On 21 May 2007, on the occasion of the InterAction Council of Former Heads of State and Government in Vienna, the Special Rapporteur raised the case of those men with President Obasanjo. On 28 May, President Obasanjo wrote to the Special Rapporteur to assure him of the assistance of the IGP in the follow-up to these cases. On 6 June, the Special Rapporteur reiterated his appeal for information on the situation of these detainees to the newly inaugurated IGP, Mr. Mike Okiro. Despite several attempts to follow up on their situation with the Inspector General of Police, the Controller General of Prisons, the Attorney General and Minister of Justice, and the President, the authorities failed to provide any information on these persons; neither details of any medical treatment provided, nor their current whereabouts. 47. Given their physical condition at the time of the visit and their subsequent disappearance, the Special Rapporteur could not but conclude that these three individuals had been victims of reprisals as a result of his intervention. Either these detainees had died as a result of a deliberate denial of medical treatment, or, worse, they had been killed by the police and disappeared: a vivid first-hand confirmation of allegations of the widespread practice of extrajudicial killings across the country. 48. By letter dated 14 September 2007, the Government stated that it is “committed to unravelling the circumstances leading to and surrounding the deaths, which it has established, of two of the detainees, namely: Mr. Elijah John and Mr. Bayo Abdurmo Adekunk. Their deaths are presently being investigated and the Government is committed and determined to hold all these found guilty, accountable”.10 By the same letter, the Government informed that Mr. Bello was alive and in prison custody in Kaduna. A photograph and medical certificate of Mr. Bello following his treatment was also provided by the Government. The Special Rapporteur reports that he has not received any information to date on steps taken to bring the officers implicated in these acts, or their superiors, to justice. 49. These two clear and grave examples of serious torture, disappearance and extrajudicial killing, notwithstanding the above-stated commitments made at the highest levels of Government, disturbingly illustrate and confirm the inability of the current system to make timely and effective inquiries in order to protect victims of serious human rights violations. It further illustrates the breakdown of a credible system of accountability of law enforcement in Nigeria. 10 However, on 20 September 2007, in a meeting with the Special Rapporteur in Geneva, the Permanent Representative of Nigeria informed him that Mr. John and Mr. Adekunk were subsequently found to be alive and have received medical treatment. Despite repeated requests for details of their situation, including their whereabouts and medical treatment reports, no information has been provided to date.