[2] He was transferred from attorney general chambers to Minister of State for Labour until June 2021 when he was dropped from the cabinet.
The police in Ntungamo District arrested and detained Rukutana and his three bodyguards following a suspected shooting incident.
[8] This accusation was found to be false and the courts of Law acquitted him[9][10] He was born in Ntungamo District on 15 November 1959.
In 1994, he was elected as a Delegate to the Constituent Assembly that drafted the 1995 Ugandan Constitution, serving in that capacity until 1995.
Mwesigwa Rukutana believes in polygamy and is married to 4 wives with 15 children, according to his interview with Daily Monitor, Uganda's leading news paper, in 2010.