NewsThe viral "scariest video" of 2 November is from April 2024. A Krobo custody confession, re-served as new, 919 days on
A clip of a handcuffed man alleging that a chop bar operator paid him to kill three women spread on X and on news sites as if it were new. It was first posted on 27 April 2024. Since then, QMS News could find no police statement, court report or verdict on the case.
old. The “new” video was first posted on 27 April 2024
A video of a handcuffed man saying a chop bar operator paid him to kill three people spread across X on Monday 2 November 2026 as if it had just been filmed. It had not. The same clip was posted on X on Saturday 27 April 2024 and reported by Ghanaian outlets that week as a custody confession from the Krobo area of the Eastern Region. Everything the man says in it is an allegation that, as far as QMS News could find, has never been tested in court.
The clip that went round on 2 November
One X post, whose author called it the scariest video they had watched all year, published at 7:22 PM GMT on 2 November, had 179,723 views by about 11:40 PM the same night, according to the post's own counter. X also grouped the posts into one of its automated Stories, which carries the platform's label that it is a summary of posts on X and that Grok can make mistakes. (QMS News saw that Story only in a screenshot.)
GhPage and MyNewsGh, the second through a Ghanamma repost, ran the confession on 2 November. Neither report gave a filming date. GhPage gave no name and no place. MyNewsGh said it was unclear whether the woman he accused had been arrested.
The same video, second by second
The clip was posted on X by Big Kay (@OfficialBigkay) at 22:20 GMT on Saturday 27 April 2024, and GhanaWeb embedded that post in a report the next day.
QMS News compared the 2024 post with the most-shared 2026 post. The soundtracks match almost exactly (a correlation of 0.96 over 117.7 seconds, offset by one hundredth of a second), and frames taken at eight points through the video show the same chair, the same clothes, the same handcuffs and the same gestures. The 2024 clip runs 117.7 seconds and the 2026 copy 118.2 seconds. The only addition in 2026 is a yellow-green gradient frame around the picture.
What was reported in April 2024
Pulse Ghana and GhanaWeb named the suspect as Richard Tetteh, 35 (the age is from Pulse). In the video, GhanaWeb and Pulse reported, he alleges that a chop bar operator paid him ₵500 for each killing. Pulse put the total at ₵1,500 for three victims.
Pulse and GhPage reported that the three women were killed in the Krobo area of the Eastern Region: at Otorkporlu in February 2024, and at Nuaso and Sekesua in April 2024.
GhanaWeb and Pulse described the man as handcuffed and questioned by people believed to be police officers. Who filmed the video, and who put it online, has not been reported. Pulse said on 29 April 2024 that the police had yet to issue an official statement.
The arrest and the denial
On 30 April 2024, Big Kay posted that the woman the man accused had been arrested by the Ghana Police and had denied any involvement. MyJoyOnline, crediting Adomonline, reported on 1 May 2024 that she "vehemently denies any involvement". GhanaWeb also reported her denial on 1 May. She has not been charged in any report QMS News found. QMS News is not naming her.
What has been published since
Between 27 April 2024 and 2 November 2026 there were 919 days. Searching on 2 and 3 November 2026, across the Ghana Police Service's X account and website and the main Ghanaian news sites, QMS News found no police statement, charge, court date or verdict on the case published after 1 May 2024. That is what could be found, not proof that nothing has happened.
None of the reports QMS News read, in 2024 or in 2026, names the three women. Pulse said the man named them in the video, but did not print the names.
Who ran the police then, and now
In April 2024 the Ghana Police Service was under the Ministry of the Interior of President Nana Akufo-Addo's NPP government. Henry Quartey was Interior Minister and Dr George Akuffo Dampare was Inspector-General of Police. No police or ministry statement on who released the custody video was found.
Today the police answer to President John Dramani Mahama's NDC government. Muntaka Mohammed-Mubarak is Interior Minister and Christian Tetteh Yohuno is Inspector-General of Police.
WHAT HAPPENED? is a QMS show that explains the story behind the headlines. This story is based on the episode's fact check. The man in the video is a suspect; his claims are allegations that have not been tested in court.
Nine hundred and nineteen days, and I could not find one police statement, one court report, one verdict. People shared his face twice. Nobody can tell you the names of the three women. And a suspect in handcuffs was online before any court sat; nobody has said who released that video. Today it is the Mahama government's police, so the question goes to them: what happened to this case? Before you share, newsrooms included: check the date. Old fear travels faster than new facts.
- X · Big Kay (@OfficialBigkay): the clip as posted on 27 Apr 2024, 22:20 GMT
- X · Big Kay (@OfficialBigkay): arrest and denial update (30 Apr 2024)
- X · KALYJAY (@gyaigyimii): the clip re-posted on 2 Nov 2026
- GhanaWeb: confession video report (28 Apr 2024)
- GhanaWeb: chop bar operator denies involvement (1 May 2024)
- Pulse Ghana: report naming the suspect (29 Apr 2024)
- GhPage: Krobo report (29 Apr 2024)
- MyJoyOnline (Adom): chop bar owner denies involvement (1 May 2024)
- GhPage: the clip run as new (2 Nov 2026)
- Ghanamma (MyNewsGh): the clip run as new (2 Nov 2026)
- Ministry of the Interior
- GNA: Henry Quartey visits the IGP (8 Apr 2024)
Every factual line in this story is checked against at least two independent sources, unless the text says it comes from one report.