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I believe that the classification of Ngwerong and Ngiri as houses of parliament is incorrect. They serve no legislative function. Ngwerong is a regulatory society, i.e. the traditional police. Ngwerong does provide some checks and balances to the power of the king, having the right to summon the king and to lock him up. Young men who spend nine years as palace pages (Nchinda) are automatically members. Others are members due to hereditary rights or by invitation after paying a large "fee". Ngiri is a society of princes. The members have little direct power. They can not become members of Ngwerong (with the rare exception that a new king may bring someone with him when he is initiated into Ngwerong and this person is a member of Ngiri). In a brilliant division of powers, the king must be selected from the princes born while their father was king (i.e. from Ngiri) through a secret mechanism involving Ngwerong (whose members can not become the king).