Patto Pattey

A one talent man. Keeping it simple. One day at a time. #CFC⚽️

[Patto Pattey @D_Patson1]

Uncle Jude running the show!!

[Patto Pattey @D_Patson1]

@mensaduncan #kurtokrakuout

[Patto Pattey @D_Patson1]

@obiMpenaAustine This matter?
Grateful to Carlos Quieroz for teaching Ghana how to defend. Now we need someone to teach us how to progress the ball and attack. Coz he ain't good at that

[Patto Pattey @D_Patson1]

@Fentuo_ Masa masa masa
Coz he will keep playing you 🤣🤣

[Patto Pattey @D_Patson1]

@jeffwellz Masa Semenyo no do anything oo
Your team can't even locate the man up front. He has to come back and take ball and try dribbling all the way to the front.
Why he be machine?

[Patto Pattey @D_Patson1]

Semenyo doesn't deserve this. You could see his was frustrated. He will trigger press only to find himself alone at the end. What a bad team we are!!!

[Patto Pattey @D_Patson1]

@CitiSportsGHA Eeii coach you saw it coming . Chale Siibo can't pass even Accra Mall

[Patto Pattey @D_Patson1]

@mr_moralz95 @thenanaaba @HonLindaAkweley Serious ooo

When it was her turn to be vetted, minority deemed her fit so they didn't ask any question apart from her name and qualifications 👏👏

[Patto Pattey @D_Patson1]

@HeadlessYouTube @Fred_Caldris_C 🤣

[Elikplim Simon-Pomary @princeganaku]

The truth is, this simply did not happen.

But as of 6:15 am on April 21, 2026, this post has 603K+ views. This is not counting engagement metrics on other social media portals or on the site itself. Nor does it include the number of times screenshots of it have been taken and reshared across the world.

The human cost of it has been unimaginable. Nobody that has commented on this, reshared it or condemned this man can ever imagine what this story has done to him and his family. And it could all have been avoided if Clement Kumah and the Fourth Estate had exercised just a little bit of restraint and discerning.

Clement Kumah reached out to my Client, Mr. Kpodo, over the weekend to discuss this matter. My Client initially found the whole thing laughable.

Why? Well because it’s easy to see how people not at post can receive salaries, because red tape and inactivity can ensure that the news that someone has left or has died or been sacked etc etc doesn't get to Controller & Accountant General on time. So the person’s actual salary will keep getting paid into their account, even though they’re not at post. That happens.

It shouldn’t happen, but you can see how it does.

On the other hand, the level of collusion that it would have to take for someone to receive each month the equivalent of twenty times the annual salary of a Member of Parliament, undetected for twenty-nine months is so utterly ridiculous that of course you’d think the whole thing was a mad joke.

Imagine for a second that you, yes you reading this, were accused of stealing the equivalent of 20 years salary from the company you work at, when you don’t even know how payroll is processed. Imagine how unimaginably stupid such an allegation would appear to you.

So the reasonable thing to do, in such circumstances, when something appears outlandish or ridiculous would have been to pause and think that maybe there's an alternative explanation for this.

During the conversation, my Client clearly amused by the ridiculousness of the whole thing, said very clearly that it is impossible that such a thing could ever happen because he was paid through Controller & Accountant General. He indicated that he could make his payslips available, if that's what the Fourth Estate needed.

After the call, the Fourth Estate sent a follow up text asking that he provide the payslips at his earliest convenience. And following this interaction, he contacted me on the matter, and I asked him to request and submit his bank statements as well. But remember, this was a Sunday, so it would take some time to gather this data. Indeed, the payslips came in at 12:29pm yesterday, and the bank statement was ready at 3:26pm.

Fortunately, he had the good sense to record this conversation and part of the conversation is in text as well, so it is time-stamped.

Now on Monday morning at 10am, the Fourth Estate publishes this ridiculous hit-piece of an article. And it's not just that they published the article, it's specifically how they did it. Despite the fact that 75% of people never read beyond the headline, at no point in the Twitter post is Mr. Kpodo's denial of the allegations ever mentioned. Yet @fourthestategh is a premium account that had the space to do so.

They spend the majority of the article itself building a narrative against him, beginning with the opening three paragraphs which state the allegation as fact. There is no ambiguity, no distancing language, and no attribution framing e.g. “the Auditor-General alleges” in the article's opening.

Then they proceed to build the narrative, bringing in "experts" who presume the allegation to be true and speculate based on that presumption that he must have had accomplices. The net effect is that language that reinforces Mr. Kpodo's guilt is repeated throughout the article, so that by the time they introduce his denial, in very sparse terms and at the bottom of the article, saying nothing of the exculpatory evidence which exists, the reader has already concluded on Mr. Kpodo's guilt.

And this wasn't an accident. This is exactly what they were going for. Someone at the Fourth Estate concluded on Mr. Kpodo's guilt, decided that for that reason, they would not wait for potentially exculpatory evidence, they would not put the denials to Controller and Attorney General for their response, they would not put the denials to the Audit Service. It simply didn't matter to them that they could be destroying someone's life over a potentially false story; that was a chance they were willing to take.

And the evidence of how the publication was understood in context is in the hundreds of quote tweets and replies, which have been posted in response to the publication.

It's one thing if Mr. Kpodo was guilty, but just imagine for a second that he's not. Imagine what his young children who are already in the middle of a divorce, have to go through, when they go to school, and they have to face their mates and teachers.

All because someone at the Fourth Estate decided that Mr. Kpodo was guilty, and there was no need to do a thorough job to get the full story or represent it fairly.

@fourthestategh You have gambled with this man's life and livelihood so carelessly, I hope whatever money you made from this hit-piece is enough to pay your lawyers for the years of litigation you are now facing.

Buckle your seatbelts and get them on the phone. It's about to be a very long couple of years for you.

[Anthony Kwasi Sarpong @anthonyasarpong]

A joint study by @GhanaRevenue and the @MoF_Ghana estimated that the State lost over GH₵11 billion in revenue between 2020 and 2025 due to under-declared imports. The Publican AI System was deployed to help Customs officers close that gap.

Every duty assessment turns on three factors: country of origin, product classification (HS code), and valuation. Publican helps officers determine all three by cross-referencing your declaration against global pricing benchmarks, shipping records, trade histories, and known misclassification patterns — in five minutes instead of two hours. The officer always makes the final call.

In the first 2 weeks after deployment on 12th March,Customs revenue rose from GH₵2.4bn to GH₵3.6bn compared to the 2 weeks before launch — a 50% increase, consistent with pilot projections. About 75% of all declarations have been found compliant and endorsed with no intervention. The remaining 25% are flagged by the system, alerting officers to examine them more closely.

If an importer disagrees with an assessment, the appeal team that existed before Publican remains in place, and a second appeals layer has been added that meets at least twice weekly. All appeals are tracked through ICUMS. A 24-hour shift system has also been introduced at Customs Valuation to ensure assessments and dispute resolution are not held up by office hours.

Looking ahead, the GRA plans to publish monthly data on declaration volumes, declared values, and the differences between initial importer assessments and Publican's indicative assessments — so the public can track the system's impact transparently.

Watch the full explainer from the Commissioner-General and share with your networks.

Know Your Taxes. Pay Your Taxes. Let Us Build Ghana Together.

#GRA #GhanaFirst 🇬🇭

[Joy 99.7 FM @Joy997FM]

GHS68B arrears audit probe: “You must be interdicted immediately!” – Majority Chief Whip Rockson-Nelson Dafeamekpor calls for the immediate interdiction of a former Defence Ministry Director of Procurement, now Director of Finance at the Lands Ministry, over his alleged role in a GHS4.8 million vehicle procurement fiasco.

#JoyNews

[Patto Pattey @D_Patson1]

@Joy997FM @Korsogyimi @citizen_koffi come and see how much Grand Vitara is costing Ghana govt 😭😭

[Patto Pattey @D_Patson1]

@Joy997FM @Korsogyimi Chale let’s be serious
This 1 Grand Vitara shouldn’t cost more than Ghc500,000.00

Ghc500,000 even after a hire purchase purchase agreement

[Patto Pattey @D_Patson1]

@jayoldroger Go to app store https://t.co/wSTjHL4KuM

or play store

https://t.co/5xHBUuacws

Download and follow the instructions to register

[Patto Pattey @D_Patson1]

Even better with G-Money
You can link your GCB bank account to your G-Money wallet and transfer from your bank to your wallet for free. You can subsequently transfer this money to other mobile money operators at lower charges

[Rogers de BioStatistician, BSc., MSc🇬🇭🇳🇬🇹🇿 @jayoldroger]

@Mzdelah I will advise everyone to have GCB Instant account.
If you wanna withdraw money from your Momo just transfer it to your GCB and use the ATM for free.

[Patto Pattey @D_Patson1]

But Brahim Diaz paaah
He should go ask Aguero 🤣

[Fentuo Tahiru Fentuo @Fentuo_]

This is too funny 🤣🤣🤣

[Patto Pattey @D_Patson1]

@Citi973 @grok what is point management system

[GHANA CHRONICLES @_GhChronicles]

I Hope we won’t see any uproar when Christians stand in the rain to praise their God?