MTN Lost my Number... Had it for 10 Years

Hello MTN,<br> <br> Please would you assist me, its been a long years with no luck. <br> <br> I had a contract number I used for 10+ years. I then started working for MTN and got a staff number, so I migrated my number to pre-paid, and used this in my iPad as a data SIM. I then noticed after some time that my iPad was no longer able to browse the net. At that time, MTN had an outage, so I paid no attention to it. I called MTN later, and was told that they could not find the number, due to the number not being RICAed, so I collected my docs, when to a shop, they could not find the number. Then I called, numerous times, the number appears to be gone. I no longer work for MTN and want my old number back.<br> <br> I was told to get the SIM number, I have it, Still I cannot be assisted. I will list the SIM number under the account ID.<br> <br> Chris