The ex-NPP National Chairman, Freddie Blay, has stated that he is prepared to engage with the committee formed by President-elect John Dramani Mahama to lay the groundwork for his Operation Recover All Loot (ORAL) initiative.

However, Blay warned that his patience might wear thin during the process, especially given Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa’s role as the committee's chair.

Speaking to JoyNews, “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 said.The Member of Parliament for North Tongu, Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa, has made several accusations against members of the Blay family, including claims of illegally acquiring state lands.

In response to these allegations, Freddie Blay refuted any wrongdoing, insisting that neither he nor his children, Kwame and Kwaw, who were mentioned by the MP, were involved in any illicit activities.

“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, headed by Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa, is tasked with collecting relevant information to be forwarded to the appropriate institutions for further investigation.

The committee also includes Raymond Archer, Martin Kpebu, COP Nathaniel Kof Boakye (retired), and Daniel Yao Domelevo.