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A beer consumer in Jinja City has taken the management of Nile Breweries Ltd to court alleging that they sold an adulterated bottled alcoholic drink to him, thus seeking a thumping Shs80m in compensation.

The Buikwe District-based brewery produces beers such as Nile Special, Nile Special Stout, Club Pilsner, Eagle Lager, Eagle Extra, Eagle Dark, and Castle Lite, among other alcoholic beverages.

In his suit filed at Jinja High Court in August 2024, Mr Raphael Norvic Sseruyange, a resident of Jinja South City Division, contends that on November 10, 2023, he bought four bottles of Nile Special from one of the bars in Jinja City, but two were contaminated with “foreign objects”.

Mr Sseruyange said he gave a colleague two beers and remained with two; but halfway into his first beer, he saw a foreign object in his unopened bottle.

Mr Sseruyange says he approached the bar owner with the unopened beer to ascertain whether she knew that the bottle contained foreign substance before selling it to him, to which she reportedly was her first time witnessing such an anomaly.

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