Uganda, April 16 -- President Museveni has ordered that Dr Martin Jerome Aliker be accorded official funeral/burial amid glowing tributes for the former astute entrepreneur and politician who chaired boards of several blue chip companies.

A dental surgeon, Aliker breathed his last at Nakasero Hospital in Kampala due to old age and long illness, his family announced yesterday. He was 95.

"His Excellency, the President of the Republic of Uganda, Gen (Rtd) Yoweri Kaguta Museveni, has granted an official burial to . former minister, Hon Martin Aliker," Ms Milly Babalanda, the minister for the Presidency, noted yesterday in a post on X, formerly Twitter.

Dr Aliker was a long-time chair of the Board of Monitor Publications Ltd, publisher of ...