𝐖𝐡𝐲 𝐌𝐮𝐬𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐧𝐢 𝐤𝐢𝐥𝐥𝐞𝐝 𝐃𝐫. 𝐌𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐢𝐧 𝐀𝐥𝐢𝐤𝐞𝐫

When Dr. Martin Aliker published his autobiography title ‘The Bell is Ringing’ in 2018, despot Museveni was so bitter that the book revealed how much of a dictator he is.

The foreign octogenarian, Museveni authomotically embarked on poisoning him and that is how he was served slow killing poison that claimed Dr. Martin Aliker on April 15, 2024

Here is what is in the book that angered Museveni

The Bell is Ringing revealed how ministers and senior officials groveled before Museveni. Aliker was minister of state for Foreign Affairs in 1996, and later minister of Parliamentary Affairs and presidential advisor.

“[But] I did not enjoy cabinet,” Aliker wrote. “When the president chaired the meeting, ministers behaved like primary school children wanting the class teacher to notice them.”

“I always sat next to John Nasasira, minister for Works, who sat next to a very superstitious senior minister. This man always carried a good-luck charm in his pocket. While the president was chairing the meeting, this man would have his hand in his pocket praying to his ancestors to let him keep his job as a minister although he was already old,” he wrote.

Aliker talked of how Museveni once referred to a female state minister who had raised her hand to speak as the “lady with a beautiful smile.”

Aliker said “this angered the full minister, who was also a lady, who told her never to smile to the president again!”

Aliker delved into Uganda’s chaotic political past, recalling how Museveni and himself visited President Binaisa in 1980 at State House Entebbe.

“Museveni was looking at the bullet holes in the ceiling. He was not interested at all and made no effort to hide his contempt for the president…”

Aliker revealed the drama that surrounded the privatisation of Apollo hotel (Sheraton Kampala hotel) which was his biggest disappointment.

He wrote about how a local group had made an offer in 1998 which was accepted. Then Ethiopian firm, Midroc, offered more and threatened to sue government. The officials who handled the sale demanded $5 million from Midroc as ‘key money’ but it paid $3m. The local group had also paid $2m in bribe.

Midroc officials came to Kampala and told the president what had happened.

“When they [investors] met government people to negotiate, one government official took out his pistol and laid it on the table and said ‘now let’s talk’,” Aliker wrote.

When the president was told about the incident, he got upset, but he kept his composure, Aliker wrote. These errant individuals were not dismissed.

Aliker was also a go-between for government and LRA rebels. One day he received a letter purportedly written by rebel leader Joseph Kony asking for medicines for gonorrhoea, cholera, and diarrhoea. He forwarded the letter to Museveni who ordered then army commander, Maj Gen Mugisha Muntu, to put together the drugs for LRA. Aliker drove them there.

“When they took delivery of the medicines, they prayed for long life for President Museveni…,” he wrote.

Aliker was very close to Sir Edward Mutesa, Kabaka of Buganda and the first post-independence ceremonial leader of Uganda. He wrote that he was Mutesa’s dentist immediately after independence and how they were family friends.

“I liked him personally but thought that he was, despite his charm, a fundamentally weak man who was in the grip of elderly, conservative and narrow-minded advisers at Mengo,” Aliker wrote.

Aliker served on boards of many companies, including Coca-Cola, Uganda Breweries, Stanbic bank, and Standard Chartered bank, among others.

“What was my value to companies like Allied Breweries and Coca-Cola or Heritage? It was undoubtedly my ability to get access to governments at the highest level.”

Take the case of Coca-Cola, which wanted a reduction in excise duties on its imported inputs. Their CEO in Uganda – a white South African – would have had no chance of seeing Museveni.

“But when Carl Ware flew in, I could arrange a meeting with him,” Aliker wrote.

The book says little about his interaction with his home community in Acholi. He admitted he did not live there since he left for school in the USA in the 1950s.

RIP 𝐌𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐢𝐧 𝐀𝐥𝐢𝐤𝐞𝐫 alongside all the comrades killed by the power-greedy foreign criminal despot, Museveni.