The facility had been condemned and criticized by many, including civil society organizations and human rights bodies.

After being arrested from his workplace in a case of mistaken identity and detained at Nalufenya, Bukenya Grace became yet another statistic of torture victims under the watch of Uganda police.

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He described the notorious detention facility as a "sick bay" where "one day equals to a year".

Telling his chilling torture ordeal on NBS TV's morning show, Mr. Bukenya said he was arrested from his workplace by 36 police officers and whisked off to Nalufenya detention facility in Jinja.

Inside the facility, about seven suspects in one room shared a razor blade -- even those who were on ARVs, Bukenya describes the experience.

"That is passive torture, you can't feel it, it comes slowly. The active torture is done from outside" he said.

Mr. Bukenya told NBS TV that civilian operatives would randomly pick suspects from the facility and torture them from outside -- he says there was no torture room at the Jinja based 'torture facility'

"People would be picked, tortured and then dumped back," he revealed.

"A man was tortured from Jinja Road; he lost a finger and the private parts cut off".

He alleges that police officers tortured some victims at night using waterboarding, a form of torture in which water is poured over a cloth covering the face causing the individual to experience the sensation of drowning.

Nalufenya detention facility will be gazetted again as a police station following its closure last week.