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Three more persons suspected to have taken part in the murder of Nii Kwaku Bibini II, a rival chief of Oblogo, near Weija in Accra, have been arrested. The arrest of Otukunor Sackey, 32, Samuel Tettey, 24, and Samuel Kpormegbe, 32, brings to 10 the number of people in police custody for their alleged roles in the murder of Nii Bibini on Easter Sunday. Six machetes, six mobile phones, one pump action gun, two locally manufactured guns, a toy pistol, three live cartridges, a bayonet, a knife and one carpenter�s hand-saw were retrieved from the hide-out of the three suspects, who were arrested at dawn on Saturday, April 21, 2012. Nii Bibini was murdered in cold blood about 5p.m. on Easter Sunday by unknown assailants when he returned to the Oblogo Palace after a year�s absence as a result of a court order. Briefing newsmen in Accra on Saturday, the Deputy Accra Regional Police Commander, Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCOP), Mr Christian Tetteh Yohuno, said a joint police/military team on Operation Calm Life duties at Amanfrom was given a tip-off that the three suspects had returned to their house at Blue Cross at Gbawe after the Easter Sunday disturbances at Weija. He said the police/military team went to the house about 4a.m. where they found the three suspects sleeping in a room. Mr Yohuno said when a search was conducted on a plantain farm in the house, a sack hidden under some pieces of wood in the plantain grove was retrieved. When it was opened, one pump action gun, two locally manufactured guns, a toy pistol, three live cartridges, a bayonet, an Okape knife and one carpenter�s hand-saw were found in the sack. The Deputy Regional Police boss said the suspects, together with the retrieved items, were sent to the Regional Police Command. He said although the three suspects denied their involvement in the murder, some eye-witnesses who saw them had given their names to the police. Moreover, after the incident, they abandoned their residence for three days before resurfacing recently. Mr Yohuno said information gathered was that since they returned home, the three suspects hardly went out for fear of being arrested.