Iringa. Elder Pascal Ndanga, (90), who is a resident of Kijiweni Street, Iringa Municipal Council, has continued to be an example of news, walking daily 2 km to follow copies of the Citizen magazine.
For many years, Elder Ndanga has set up a system for tracking internal and external information, saying he likes to read historical information.
Speaking to Citizen today on March 14, 2025, Ndanga was born on February 18, 1935 in Mgama County in Iringa, he liked to read the Citizen newspaper because of his mixed and definite news.
He said he has been a follower of the magazine since its inception (2000) and loves the historical sites that discuss past and present events, such as the history of various ethnic groups.
He has called on Citizens' producers to continue its management and improve his newspapers for the benefit of the community.
“Thank you for getting copies of the people every day and ask them to continue with good governance to improve their newspapers. This is desperately needed to increase transparency and to develop factual information, ”he said.
In addition, Elder Ndanga has touched on the challenge of young people not wanting to read newspapers as it was in the past where he has stated that many spend their time on different activities and reading newspapers, which should change to develop a culture of reading to know what is going on in society.
He said if he had traveled and was out of Iringa and missed a copy of the Mwananchi newspaper, returning to Iringa arrives at Citizens' offices in the region and bought copies of what he missed.
Elder Ndanga after graduating from Secondary Education at Tosamaganga Secondary School later received business education, accounting and economics at the British Tutorial College in Nairobi, Kenya from 1960 to 1965. He says the education helped him in his future work.
“I finished my high school in Tosamaganga and thereafter focused on accounting, which helped me a lot in my work,” he said.
The elder said he worked a long time in the Ministry of Finance, an accountant of Parliamentary offices from 1966 to 1977 and later worked in various public entities until 2015 when he retired.
Priva Kassian, a newspaper dealer from Samora, in Iringa, says Elder Ndanga is his most common client seems to enjoy finding a Citizen magazine.
“Whenever this old man comes to buy his copy, he is always happy to get daily news,” said Priva.
On the other hand, Hamza Gwandi, an agent of Mwananchi Communications in Iringa, said he had known Elder Ndanga for a long time as a prominent reader of the newspaper.
“Elder Ndanga is our longtime client. It does not go by one week without reaching us in the office and taking copies of the newspaper. He is a good example of someone who knows the importance of reading newspapers, ”said Gwandi.
