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Sam Cheptoris

Politician

Sam Cheptoris is a politically exposed person. They are a person of interest by virtue of their position and the influence they may hold. They have not been found on international sanctions lists.

Type	Person				[sources]
Name	Sam Cheptoris				[sources]
Alias	Sam Mangusho Cheptoris				[sources]
Birth date	1949-12-12				[sources]
Place of birth	Kapchorwa District				[sources]
Gender	male				[sources]
Nationality	Uganda				[sources]
Country	Uganda				[sources]
Citizenship	Uganda				[sources]
Classification	National government (current)				[sources]
First name	Sam				[sources]
Phone	+256700423245 · +256772997722				[sources]
Political association	National Resistance Movement				[sources]
Wikidata ID	Q24565843				[sources]
Position	Member of Parliament of Uganda · Minister of Water & Environment · Minister of Water and Environment · Parliament (member, 2016-)				[sources]
Education	Makerere University · University of Nairobi				[sources]
Source link	www.cia.gov				[sources]
Last change	2026-01-18	Last processed	2026-01-22	First seen	2019-05-21

Descriptions

Ugandan politician

— Wikidata non-official source, 2023-07-18

Relationships

Positions held
Position occupied	Start date	End date
Member of Parliament of Uganda	-	-

Data sources

MySociety's EveryPolitician Dataset of National Legislators40,653

All members of national legislatures in the world, collected from hundreds of government web sites and consolidated via Wikidata.

Global · MySociety · non-official source

Wikidata Persons in Relevant Categories383,859

Category-based imports from Wikidata, the structured data version of Wikipedia.

Global · Wikidata · non-official source

Wikidata Politically Exposed Persons316,372

Profiles of politically exposed persons from Wikidata, the structured data version of Wikipedia.

Global · Wikidata · non-official source

US CIA World Leaders10,998

An index of most national-level cabinet members in world governments that is publicly maintained by the CIA.

United States · CIA

External databases

The record has been enriched with data from the following external databases:

Wikidata334,636

Wikidata is the structured data project of the Wikipedia community, providing fact-based information edited by humans and machines

External dataset · Global · Wikidata · non-official source

PEP position annotations by OpenSanctions526,039

Entity categorisation decisions by the OpenSanctions team.

External dataset · OpenSanctions · non-official source

Source data IDs: us-cia-uganda-sam-cheptoris-minister-of-water-environment · evpo-1145ea03-1dcd-4300-8eb3-26452a62512c

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