{{short description|Ugandan politician}} {{use dmy dates|date=March 2020}} {{Infobox person | name = Sam Cheptoris | image = Cheptoris Sam Mangusho.jpg | caption = | birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1949|12|12|df=yes}} | birth_place = Kapchorwa District, Uganda | death_date = | death_place = | alma_mater = {{plainlist| * University of Nairobi {{small|(Bachelor of Arts)}} * Makerere University {{small|(Postgraduate Diploma in Education, Master of Education)}} }} | occupation = Educator and Politician | years_active = 1975–present | citizenship = Uganda | known_for = Politics | networth = | title = Cabinet Minister for Water and Environment | spouse = }}
'''Sam Mangusho Cheptoris''' (born 12 December 1949) is a Ugandan politician. He was the Cabinet Minister of Water and Environment in the Cabinet of Uganda. He was appointed to that position on 6 June 2016.<ref name="New">{{cite web|title=Museveni's new cabinet list At 6 June 2016|url=http://www.monitor.co.ug/blob/view/-/3235304/data/1345443/-/3o16hn/-/Museveni%2527s+cabinet.pdf|accessdate=7 June 2016|newspaper=Daily Monitor|date=6 June 2016|location=Kampala|author=Uganda State House|archive-date=7 October 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161007121926/http://www.monitor.co.ug/blob/view/-/3235304/data/1345443/-/3o16hn/-/Museveni%27s+cabinet.pdf|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Hon. Sam Cheptoris {{!}} Ministry of Water and Environment |url=https://www.mwe.go.ug/people/hon-sam-cheptoris |access-date=2023-02-09 |website=www.mwe.go.ug}}</ref><ref>{{Citation |title=CBA opening speeches: Hon. Sam Cheptoris |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LUsljvWHtPo |language=en |access-date=2023-02-09}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=child |date=2018-02-27 |title=Cabinet Members and Ministers of State as at 21 July 2022 |url=https://www.parliament.go.ug/page/cabinet-members-and-ministers-state-21-july-2022 |access-date=2023-02-09 |website=www.parliament.go.ug |language=en}}</ref> In 2021 he was elected as member of parliament for Kapchorwa Municipality.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Cheptoris Sam Mangusho - 2021 General Election - Visible Polls |url=https://visiblepolls.org/ug/2021-general-election/candidates/cheptoris-sam-mangusho-7586/ |access-date=2023-02-09 |website=visiblepolls.org |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Sam Cheptoris |url=https://theyworkforyou.github.io/uganda-parliament-watch/mp/1145ea03-1dcd-4300-8eb3-26452a62512c/ |access-date=2023-02-09 |website=theyworkforyou.github.io}}</ref>
==Early life and education== Sam Cheptoris was born in present-day Kapchorwa District, on 12 December 1949. He studied at Nabumali High School, before attending the University of Nairobi where he graduated with a Bachelor of Arts. Later, he studied at Makerere University, graduating first with a Postgraduate Diploma in Education and later with a Master of Education.<ref name="Who">{{cite web|accessdate=8 June 2016|date=8 June 2016|url=http://www.monitor.co.ug/News/National/Who-are-the-new-faces-in-Museveni-s-Cabinet-/-/688334/3237208/-/item/1/-/jvu2eiz/-/index.html|title=Who are the new faces in Museveni's Cabinet?: Sam Cheptoris - Minister for Water and Environment|newspaper=Daily Monitor|location=Kampala|author=Monitor Team|archive-date=1 October 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181001171313/http://www.monitor.co.ug/News/National/Who-are-the-new-faces-in-Museveni-s-Cabinet-/-/688334/3237208/-/item/1/-/jvu2eiz/-/index.html|url-status=dead}}</ref>
==Academic career== In 1975, after his undergraduate studies in Nairobi, Cheptoris served as a teacher of English and English Literature at ''Sebei College, Tegeres''. Between 1978 and 1981, he served as deputy head teacher at the same school. After brief stints at Comboni College and at Gamatui Girls School, he came back to Sebei College as Headmaster in 1998. He retired from academics in 2009.<ref name="Who" />
==Political career== In 2011 Cheptoris won the Kapchorwa District LC5 position on the National Resistance Movement political party ticket. After one five-year term, he successfully contested for the newly created Kapchorwa Municipality constituency in the Parliament of Uganda.<ref name="Who" /> On 6 June 2016, he was appointed as Cabinet Minister of Water and Environment.<ref>{{cite web| url=https://www.scribd.com/doc/314964607/New-Cabinet | title=Uganda's New Cabinet As At 6 June 2016 |accessdate=8 June 2016 |date=6 June 2016 | publisher=Scribd.com |author=Uganda State House}}</ref> Among his priorities as a member of parliament are: (a) to establish an irrigation system in the constituency to boost agricultural production, (b) to assist in the creation of a university in the sub-region, (c) to assist in the re-establishment of "Elgon Cooperative Union", and (d) to establish a water and sewerage system in Kapchorwa Municipality.<ref>{{cite web| url=http://www.monitor.co.ug/News/National/Cabinet-job-miracle-Cheptoris/688334-3269140-44hkd6z/index.html | title=Cabinet job a miracle – Cheptoris |date=27 June 2016 |accessdate=11 October 2017 |last=Allan Chekwech |first=and Joyce Chemitai |newspaper=Daily Monitor |location=Kampala }}</ref>
==Business interests== Cheptoris is the proprietor of (a) ''Kapchrowa Standard Academy'', a secondary school in Kapchorwa District and (b) ''Cheminy Standard Academy'', a secondary school in neighboring Kween District.<ref>{{cite web|accessdate=3 July 2016| url=http://www.monitor.co.ug/Magazines/PeoplePower/From-classroom-to-Cabinet/-/689844/3277174/-/item/1/-/pupj2p/-/index.html |title=From classroom to Cabinet |date=3 July 2016 |first= Allan |last=Chekwech|location=Kampala| newspaper=Daily Monitor}}</ref>
==See also== * Cabinet of Uganda * Parliament of Uganda
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==External links== *[http://www.parliament.go.ug/ Website of the Parliament of Uganda]
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