Martin Jerome Okec Aliker is dead, the insider reports.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
He passed on today at around 9 am<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Martin Jerome Okec Aliker was a Ugandan dental surgeon, businessman, entrepreneur, and community leader.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
He was a senior adviser to the President of Uganda and has sat on the board of directors of nearly forty Ugandan companies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
He was the chancellor of Victoria University Uganda, a private institution.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
From 2004 until 2014, he served as the founding chancellor of Gulu University.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Aliker was born in Gulu District on 21 October 1928 to Rwot Lacito Okech and Julaina Auma, a daughter of Musa Ali, the first ordained Anglican priest in the region of the Acholi.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
He attended Gulu High School for his primary education, before transferring to Kings College Budo for his O-Level studies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In 1948, he was admitted to Makerere University, the oldest public university in East Africa. Before he could complete his studies at Makerere, he won a scholarship to Northwestern University, in Chicago, Illinois, United States, where he studied political science, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts degree.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Following that, he was awarded a Fulbright Scholarship to study dental surgery, also at Northwestern, graduating with a Doctor of Dental Surgery.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Later, he was awarded the title of Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons by the Royal College of Surgeons of England.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
After his doctorate studies in the United States, Aliker returned to Uganda and took up employment as a government dental surgeon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Later, he left the civil service and set up the first private dental practice in Uganda owned by an African.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In 1971, when Idi Amin captured power in a coup d’\u00e9tat, his residence shared the back wall with Aliker’s house. Amin’s security people ordered him to move away from his home because he was deemed a security risk to Amin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In late 1972, he fled to Nairobi, Kenya because of the deteriorating security situation in Uganda. While in Nairobi, he set up a lucrative dental practice, staying there until 1998, when he came back to Uganda.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Martin Jerome Okec Aliker is dead, the insider reports. He passed on today at around 9 am Martin Jerome Okec Aliker was a Ugandan dental surgeon, businessman, entrepreneur, and community leader. He was a senior adviser to the President of Uganda and has sat on the board of directors of nearly forty Ugandan companies. He […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27983,"featured_media":38866,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_paywall_metabox":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[98],"tags":[31,8846],"class_list":["post-38865","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-featured","tag-martin-jerome-okec-aliker"],"yoast_head":"\n