Some senators, getting calls from unidentified callers that their wives or husbands were spotting in love rides sitting in jeeps, cannot have it anymore.

Moreover, the senators are fed-up with callers, constituents, demanding money via extortion.

No one wants to hear such bad news of infidelity or extortion that could be coming from the secret partner of the wife or husband. So the senate is taking action, a stiff one to to protect users and one senator declared Tuesday in chambers, "to "save us".

"...This is unacceptable. These cell phone extortionists even use their phones to tell lies about how they saw your wife in a jeep with a boyfriend. Let the matter be transferred to the standing committee on Telecom to save us," said Sen. Daniel Nathan

Senators fear the "explosion of mobile phone extortionists" in the country and have called on their standing committee on Telecom to save them by instituting the necessary measures on the matter.

The fear came amidst a letter from Sen. Gloria M. Scott (Maryland County) explaining her ordeals on how "scrupulous individuals" have used her name to extort money, gas coupons and other valuables from her friends in government, international communities and elsewhere through the scheme.

Several GSM companies operating here allows Street Vendors to sell their sim cards unregistered but other Senators who explained similar ordeals attributed the scheme to the "non restriction" of sim sales in the country.

"Sim cards are sold everywhere on the side walks. This is not normal. [particulars] of those that buy sim cards should be taken for security purposes," one said.

Others noted that such a scheme can undermine the security of a country and pushed for a law to be passed to restrict GSM Companies operating here on their sim sales so as to enable a data collection of those who would be in possession of such cards.

Sen. Fredric Cherue "This should be a lesson. The only solution to this problem is to pass a law that would compel GSM companies to register all those who will be buying their sim cards."

Meanwhile, it was unanimously moved by Senate that its standing committee on Telecom take responsibility of the matter.

If successful, the Legislature could end the sale of mobile phone sim cards on the streets, compelling buyers to register their phone numbers in a bid to end what senators call extortion and abuse coming from their constituents.

Senators are debating the move because some claim that they have been victims of extortionists, people calling them and demanding money without knowing their particulars and identities.

At the moment, sim cards are sold at street corners, a practice common in most countries, including developed ones.

Observers believe simcard registration here will pose difficulties for several reasons. Many of the mobile phone users are in rural areas, where there is no electricity nor computers for creating database. Even in rural areas, the technology for a data is lacking. Houses here are not numbered to provide easy means of locating individuals.