In the past few years national days and national ceremonies increasingly saw them being turned into days for the ruling party SWAPO only. Guests arrived in SWAPO colours and more than often, politicians from opposition parties would not even be invited. In a second attempt to alert the National Assembly on the role of national days, the Congress of Democrats again tabled a motion to reflect on the issue. CoD member Tsudao Gurirab on Tuesday never mentioned SWAPO but in his speech heavily hinted at this trend of SWAPO over the past years to what he called "hi-jack" national days for its own gains. In a very eloquent speech the CoD member outlined that national days should unify a nation and not split it. "There is not half Namibian or a single group which is more Namibian than the other", he sated. "It is thus undignified and unwarranted to reduce the status of national days and functions to party political point-scoring", he added. Party-political activity simply has no place in the commemoration of national; days", such days were there to inculcate "common loyalty to a single state". Gurirab proposed that a parliamentary committee of all political parties be formed to look how such functions were prepared, look how other countries conducted national days and to report in 6 months how in future such days should be organized and conducted.