Charles Cheruiyot Keter (born 22 November 1969) is a Kenyan politician. He has belonged to the United Democratic Alliance Party of Kenya (UDA) since 2022.

Career

From 1993 to 1994, Keter worked as a systems analyst at Telkom Kenya. He performed well and was then promoted to a position of assistant manager of the anti-fraud section. Keter began his political career in 2002 when he contested for a parliamentary seat and won to represent the people of

Belgut Constituency Belgut is an electoral constituency in Kenya. It is one of six constituencies of Kericho County Kericho County is one of the 47 counties in Kenya. The county seats between longitude 35°02' and 35°40' East and between the equator and latitude ...

in the

National Assembly of Kenya The National Assembly of the Republic of Kenya is one of the two Houses of the Parliament of Kenya. Between 1966 and 2013, it served as a unicameral house. In 2013 ( 11th Parliament), it became the lower house when the Senate was reestablis ...

. Keter joined the

Orange Democratic Movement The Orange Democratic Movement (ODM) is a centre-left political party in Kenya. It is the successor of a grassroots people's movement which was formed during the 2005 Kenyan constitutional referendum campaign. This movement separated in Augus ...

in 2007 and was elected for the second time as MP for Belgut in the National Assembly in the December 2007 parliamentary election.Members Of The 10th Parliament
. Parliament of Kenya. Accessed June 19, 2008. From 2008 to 2013, he was Assistant Minister of

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in addition to representing his people in Parliament. In 2013 he ran for the senatorial seat for Kericho County on a URP ticket under the Jubilee Coalition led by

Uhuru Kenyatta Uhuru Muigai Kenyatta (born 26 October 1961) is a Kenyan politician who served as the fourth president of Kenya from 2013 to 2022. Kenyatta was chosen by Daniel Arap Moi as his preferred successor, but Kenyatta was defeated by opposition le ...

. Keter won to become the second

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for Kericho County in 2013 since the independence of Kenya, a position that he held till he was named the Cabinet Secretary for Energy and Petroleum under Kenyatta. In 2015 he became Kenya's energy minister (Cabinet Secretary for Energy & Petroleum). He was moved to the Ministry of Devolution in 2021 in a reshuffle. He resigned in February 2022 to venture into elective politics in his Rift Valley's backyard.

Personal life

Charles Keter is married to Winnie Keter and they have children. Their younger daughter Daisy graduated with a master's degree in Commercial and Corporate Law LL.M from the

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References

Living people Members of the Senate of Kenya United Republican Party (Kenya) politicians Orange Democratic Movement politicians Members of the National Assembly (Kenya) 1969 births {{Kenya-politician-stub