The Ovie of Uvwie Kingdom, HRM Dr. Emmanuel Ekemejewa Sideso, Abe 1, JP, OON has warned the police authorities that the placing of Enerhen Police Division located in Uvwie local government area under Warri Area command in Warri South local government is a recipe for chaos and has therefore appealed to the Inspector General of Police for a reversal
The Uvwie Monarch who spoke in Effurun on Wednesday(17/11/2025) when he received ACP Aliyu Shaba, the newly appointed Area Commander, Uvwie Police Area Command. Effurun pointed out that due to the rapid urbanization of Uvwie and the need to sustain the peace, he requested that the four police divisions in the local government area should form the new command because the traditional and the local government councils had been supporting them.
He said for inexplicable reasons, one of the police division in his local government was placed in distance local government, which he argued was a negation of administrative logic intended to bring policing nearer to the people
He explained that when he requested for a division in Uvwie Local government, he demanded that Ekpan, Enerhen, Ebrumede and Ugborikoko should form the Uvwie police command, home to the federal government oil and gas assets such as the refinery, NNPC Gas Infrastructure and marketing company. Petroleum Training Institute and the Federal University of Petroleum Resources
Present on the occasion were the Chairman, Uvwie Local Government council, Hon. Tony Ofoni and the some Inuevworos(four traditional prime ministers)
