I may lose my temper on Ablakwa if I appear before ORAL committee – Freddie Blay

Former National Chairman of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Freddie Blay, has stated that he is ever ready to appear before the preparatory committee set up by President-elect John Dramani Mahama to set the grounds for his Operation Recover All Loot (ORAL) policy.

However, according to Mr. Blay, he may lose his cool at the committee because of its chairperson, Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa.

“I am saying if it’s a proper organization and has a basis in law and they even invite me that they have something and they want me to appear, Okudzeto, I will meet him. Unfortunately, he will be the chair. If I don’t take care, I might be a little bit... I will lose my temper with him because of what he’s been saying, the disgrace, the defamation, the libellous things he’s been talking and writing. It may provoke me. I wouldn’t know what my reaction will be,” he told JoyNews in an interview.

Mr. Ablakwa, who is the Member of Parliament for North Tongu, has levelled various accusations against some members of the Blay family, including grabbing state lands.

But reacting to the allegations, Freddie Blay denied any wrongdoing on his part and that of his children, Kwame and Kwaw, who have been named by the MP.

“My family has not taken a pesewa from the Ghana government unlawfully. We have not taken any government land unlawfully. We have not done anything that you can blame me for. If Okudzeto now is convinced that I’ve done that, then I’m a little careful about what ORAL wants to do,” he said in an interview with Accra-based JoyNews.

“I’ve sued him for defamation, and my two children have sued him also for defamation because we have not taken any government land and yet give that impression. He organizes people with placards and makes it look as if my two sons and I have stolen government lands. He calls that state capture. That I will resist. I want to tell you that he is shooting after shadows because we have not done that,” he explained.

President Mahama’s ORAL team, led by Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa, is expected to gather information, which will be sent to the right institutions to be investigated.

Other members of the committee include Raymond Archer, Martin Kpebu, COP Nathaniel Kof Boakye (retired) and Daniel Yao Domelevo.



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