The group known as Ekpeye Avengers and Liberation Front has also issued a fourteen-day ultimatum to oil companies operating in Ekpeye land to sign what it calls a development-based Memorandum of Understanding or vacate the area.
The demand was made in a statement signed by the spokesman for the group who identified himself as General GODWIN EWUMA.
According to the statement obtained by our correspondent, the group also accused oil multinationals of neglecting their host communities.
It threatened to attack oil installations and Federal Government facilities if the companies failed to comply it demand on the expiration of the deadline.
