A member of the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Constitutional, Legal Affairs and Petitions, Lukato Lukato wants the public to take part in the consultation aimed at revisiting the constitution, as the current document was drafted without wider public input.
Lukato was speaking at a public consultation at Mariental.
"Through the laws, the parliament, through the laws, the supreme laws of our constitution, you post questions; you are allowed to participate by submitting proposals and recommendations."
Rehoboth West Urban Councillor Harald Kambrude wants the Constitution to be looked at carefully before amendments.
"We haven't touched on it as yet. I'm also not in favour of constitutional changes haphazardly or as we please or when we think something is not right."
//Kharokhoen Traditional Authority leader David Hanse stated that the constitution must be looked at from the grassroots perspective, particularly on provisions of land.
"If we want peace and stability in our country, then we have to acknowledge the ancestral land issue to be brought into the constitution."
Hanse further said the battle for land started with the indigenous communities, adding that this should be looked at from the grassroots perspective, as these battles later spread to become a liberation struggle for independence.
Committee Member Job Amupanda supported Gaob Hanse's sentiments and noted that lawmakers debate and discuss various matters.
However, they never get to actually discuss the traditional leadership budget as they are a subordinate of the ministry.
"Even as members of parliament, we don't get an opportunity to discuss the allocation, the funding, because it's somewhere hidden. But we even get to discuss something that looks like petty things. We do know that there's that article 66 that is provided for in the constitution that speaks about customary law."
Kambrude also wants parliamentarians to do justice in serving the public.
"I would really like to see that parliament is not the battleground of political parties. That parliament lives up to its expectations of the people who elected them there to make laws on their behalf."