Ugandan dental surgeon, businessman, and community leader, Dr. Martin Jerome Okec Aliker, passed away at 95.
He advised presidents and chaired boards for numerous Ugandan companies, also serving as chancellor of Victoria University Uganda and founding chancellor of Gulu University from 2004 to 2014.
Born in Gulu District on October 21, 1928, to Rwot Lacito Okech and Julaina Auma, he attended Gulu High School and Kings College Budo for his education. He began his studies at Makerere University but later moved to Northwestern University in Illinois, USA, earning a Bachelor of Arts in political science on a scholarship.
He then pursued dental surgery at Northwestern, becoming a Doctor of Dental Surgery. He was later honored as a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons by the Royal College of Surgeons of England.
