KAMPALA: President Yoweri Museveni wants jilted minister of state for labour Mwesigwa Rukutana to account for his disgraceful actions after losing the battle to retain his constituency in the recently concluded NRM primaries.

President Museveni was last night appealing for calm within the NRM party following the recent national wide party Primaries that saw violence and intimidation in some areas.

The President who is also the chairman of the party urged: “I appeal to you Ugandans to be calm, write your complaints and points, we shall act on them.”

Museveni allayed: “Those who beat people like in Bukono, and Minister Rukutana who pulled a gun on a rivals supporter are already in jail and those on run will be arrested and face the law.”

He added: “They will be fully accountable with robust charges of assault, attempted murder, murder.”

President Museveni then tipped: “The only way to close this gap is to introduce the digital verification of the voters using their biometric-data so that the voter only register once and if he or she tries to register a second time, the central memory of the system will detect it and block it.”

He warned: “The ones who are threatening people with violence will go to jail. I want to assure everybody that what happened the other day will never happen again.”

Museveni assured: “We also removed the multiple ballot boxes and ballot papers and introduced a single ballot box and the single ballot paper which got rid of the practice of destroying the ballot paper of the opponent by pouring acid in the box or switching labels on the boxes.”