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Over 40 years ago Francis (Frank) Kalemera Kalimuzo visited Lake Bunyonyi and appreciated the natural beauty of the lake. He liked the lake so much; he decided to make it his home. About 1963 he started putting up the first building at the lake. The building was meant to be his home, but this never happened because even as he built, tourists asked to stay there. The hotel was completed and people from Kabale and afar flocked to the hotel. This was the beginning of tourism at Lake Bunyonyi.

Frank Kalimuzo was born on September 24, 1925. He studied education at Makerere University graduating in 1946. He then worked as a schoolmaster at King’s College Budo, until he was admitted to the University College of Aberystwyth in Wales for further studies. There he majored in economics and graduated in 1955 with an honors degree. After this he was invited to Wadham College in Oxford where he studied the Overseas Course B for one year.

On his return to Uganda he served as an Assistant District Commissioner for several years till he was appointed to be the Secretary of the Constitution Committee that was mandated to seek out views from across the Uganda Protectorate on the future constitution of Uganda and the form of direct elections to the legislative council. Frank Kalimuzo married Esther Consullatta Rwabuhungu in October of 1958.

After Uganda attained Independence on October 9, 1962, Frank Kalimuzo was appointed Permanent Secretary in the Prime Minister’s Office. His meteoric rise reached its peak when in 1963; he was appointed Head of Uganda’s Civil Service, Permanent Secretary Office of the Prime Minister and Secretary to the Cabinet. In July 1970, then President Milton Obote appointed him Vice Chancellor of Makerere University