Ibanda Grade One magistrate's court has sentenced a bar attendant to 6 months in jail at Nyabuhikye Prison for stealing Shs.77,000 from her employer.  Patience Amutuhire confessed to stealing the money from the counter at NK Bar in Kacwampare, Rugoba in Nyabuhikye Sub-County, where she worked as a bar attendant on October 9, 2023.

While appearing before Her Worship Esther Murungi, the 21-year-old Amutuhire claimed she stole the cash from Wilbroad Mutabaruka’s bar to take her sick mother to hospital, this money was later recovered and returned to Mutabaruka who continued and reported the matter to Police. The six-month jail term was as the prosecution and defendant's prayers for a deterrent punishment; and ignored the two months that the convict had prayed for.

The magistrate said Amutuhire needed to be removed from the community and go where you can learn skills for self-reliance. She advised the convict to embrace skills development programmes like handcraft making and weaving while in prison.