Prince of Buganda rescued from Uganda’s boat wreckage as Museveni talks tough

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Prince Daudi Kintu Wasajja, Prince of Buganda in Uganda : lucky survivor. Above on his wedding day on April 27, 2013

A Prince of Buganda, one of the several kingdoms in Uganda was among the survivors rescued Sunday from a cruise boat wreckage on Lake Victoria.

The lucky prince was identified by the police as Daudi Kintu Wasajja, a brother of Ronald Mutebi, the king of Buganda kingdom, Uganda’s largest..

Wasajja’s rescue came as Uganda’s President Yoweri Museveni vowed to impose sanctions on the operators of the boat for violating the rules.

Museveni in a series of tweets on Sunday said that the cruise boat which capsized on Lake Victoria on Saturday, killing at least 29 people, was carrying more than twice its capacity of 50.

More than 200 people died in September when an overloaded ferry sank on the Tanzanian side of the lake.

On Sunday, a police helicopter flew over the spot where the boat went down on Saturday evening in the waters off Mukono district near…



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