Kenya Sevens legend Collins Injera secures new job in public service

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RUGBY Kenya Sevens legend Collins Injera secures new job in public service

Joel Omotto 07:37 - 19.07.2023

The former Shujaa star has traded the private sector for public service after his highly decorated rugby career.

Kenya Sevens legend Collins Injera has landed a new job at the Parliamentary Service Commission (PSC), six months after retiring from rugby.

Injera, a communications graduate from Daystar University where he majored in Public Relations, had been working in the private sector even when he was playing but has now switched to public service.

The 36-year-old is now working in the Senate Liaison office since June as he seeks to expand his horizon although he could neither confirm nor deny the reports when contacted.

“Those are just rumours, nothing like that,” Injera told Pulse Sports when contacted.

However, a source who works at PSC, confirmed the rugby legend’s new role.

Injera retired in January this year after a successful 17-year rugby career that saw him leave as the second-highest try scorer in the World Rugby Sevens Series with 279 behind England’s Dan Norton (350).

The decorated star was inducted into the Melrose Rugby Hall of Fame in April, coming four months after he had been inducted into the Fiji Hall of Fame in January and could soon join his elder brother and former Kenya Sevens captain Humphrey Kayange into the World Rugby Hall of Fame after Tall was inducted in 2021.

He was also awarded the Order of the Golden Warrior (OGW) alongside Kayange in 2010 by Kenya's former President, the late Mwai Kibaki.

His career highlights include winning the Singapore Sevens in 2016 as well as emerging the top try scorer for the 2008-09 World Rugby Sevens Series season with 42 tries as well as reaching the semi-finals of the 2009 World Cup Sevens in Dubai with Shujaa.

Injera was nominated for the 2008-09 Sevens Player of the Year award, which eventually went to Ollie Phillips, but was named the Kenyan Sportsman of the Year in 2009.

His career trajectory should serve as an inspiration to other sports personalities to have a fall back plan for when they retire from sports.