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Samuel Moroto

Kenyan politician- Member of parliament for Kapenguria Constituency

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionDec 1, 2025
Entity authorityQ18207112 ↗
Source-derived summary

Samuel Chumel Moroto (born 1960) is a Kenyan politician. He represents Kapenguria Constituency in the Kenyan National Assembly of the Kenyan parliament. He belongs to the Kenya African National Union (KANU) party. He is a career teacher and trade unionist. He was first elected to parliament in 2002. He hails from the Pokot community which mainly inhabits West Pokot County.

Early life and education

He is a teacher by profession. Between 1983 and 1988, he served as an untrained teacher. He was promoted to the level of deputy headteacher in 1989 and to that of headteacher in 1995. Moroto is currently an pursuing a Bachelor of Arts at Daystar University.

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The public source identifies “Samuel Moroto” as kenyan politician- Member of parliament for Kapenguria Constituency. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Samuel, Moroto and Kenyan.

Editorial reviewA productive starting point for separating a subject’s documented career from later reputation and commemoration. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1960, 2002, 1983, 1988—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1960. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Samuel, Moroto and Kenyan providing the first useful test.
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This entry incorporates text from “Samuel Moroto” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.