A bit of news on lovely Armentel. They are supposed to be selling 50,000 new SIM cards for the next 10 days, that makes it 5000 SIM cards a day for new subscribers of mobile phones. Today is the second day whereby Armentel officially should be selling and releasing 5000 cards. I have had a mobile phone for over 6 months and have been waiting to purchase a SIM card so I can use the mobile.

This morning I went to Armentel to buy this �Easy Card� not so easy by anyone�s standards, and of course after 2 hours of waiting around they decided not to release any today. What happened to those 5000 cards?

The most upsetting part was the way the police were treating the ordinary people waiting patiently to purchase the easy card, they were treated so badly, I was amongst those people. The police are extremely rude in this country and make fun of the ordinary person in the street. By the way during the whole time that I waited not once an announcement was made that there won�t be any cards today.

So let me tell you where the 5000 cards went today. I would not have believed it if I didn�t see it with my own eyes. Shady people sell these so called cards in the newspaper. For curiosity sake we called a few of them and were told that they have these cards for sale for $70 US (Armentel�s price is $24 US). These shady people who have contacts are making a profit of $46 US per card. What chance does an honest ordinary person have in this country? I�m getting quite fed up and tired of this never ending corruption.