President Museveni has confirmed that the State Minister for Labour, Mwesigwa Rukutana is being held in detention to account for a shooting incident in Ntugamo, western Uganda.
The shooting is related to election violence that rocked the NRM Party primaries on Friday last week.
Mr Rukutana is reported to have shot a person during the fracas and was arrested trying to free into neighbouring Rwanda by Uganda security officers.
The minister together with his three guards have so far spent a second night at Mbarara Police cells.
Four sureties led by Kahinda Otafire, the Minister of Justice and Constitutional Affairs, Jim Muhwezi and businessmen Ben Kavuya and Bob Kabonero appeared at the police station on Sunday to bail out the trigger happy minister to no avail.
Samson Kasasira, the Rwizi police spokesperson refuted earlier reports claiming that Rukutana was released on bond.
The President in a letter relayed on twitter assured party members that shallow crooks will not stand in NRM. Hooligans will not be allowed to bribe, intimidate, alter results or assault anyone.
"The cheating in the NRM Primaries is over. Those who beat People, like in Bukono, are all in jail or on the run. Minister Rukutana is in jail and will be prosecuted," Museveni warned.
Perpetrators will be charged with assault, attempted murder and murder. Those who altered results will go to jail on forgery, fraud, subversion.
Museveni appreciates voter turn out and transparency
During the February 2019 Chobe CEC Conference, the NRM recommended voting by lining up in its party primary elections.
"You have seen how it has succeeded. It is transparent for everybody to see during daylight." Museveni appreciated the NRM members for turning up massively.
NRM members were seen in long queues standing behind their favourite candidates as if #Coronavirus never existed.
The President also said that there will be no rerun of elections since most results were witnessed by respective participants. Reruns will be acceptable only where elections were not held.
"We simply need to audit what happened in each village. Once the counting is done in the village, the elections are over. It will, therefore, not help anybody to miss-add because People are aware of these numbers," Museveni added.
President Museveni promised Ugandans that his government will this year when the electoral commission puts in place the digitalized biometric voter registration system.
"The only way to stop vote rigging is through digital verification of the voters using their biometric-data (fingerprints etc.) so that voter registers only once and if he or she tries to register a second time, the Central memory of the 4 system will detect it and block it," Museveni concluded.
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