"That this honourable House requests government to establish a broad based commission to undertake a comprehensive citizen centred initiative to review the republican constitution adopted on September 30, 1966 and such a review process to be completed within 18 months," reads the motion.
Ntuane, who is associated with the barataphathi faction of the ruling Botswana Democratic Party (BDP), withdrew his motion during the last session of Parliament. At the time, he said, he did not want the motion to steal the limelight from the debate on President Ian Khama's State of the Nation Address. While Ntuane's motion will be backed by the opposition, it is going to pit the BDP barataphathi MPs against their rivals in the A-Team. The motion is going to revive the hostility between the two BDP factions. The debate about a constitutional amendment, featured prominently during the parliamentary discussions on the Station of the Nation Address in the last session of Parliament.
