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A chief of Tuba, Hussein Mikail Agbo Narh III, alias Munkaila, was Tuesday arrested together with 75 others in a swoop by a combined team of police and military personnel at Tuba and its environs to clamp down on criminals within the area. Chief Narh, 48, is alleged to have asked Dawood Tetteh, the principal suspect, whose attempted arrest last Saturday led to the killing of a policeman and injury to three others, to flee the town before the police could organise any swoop. Dawood�s other accomplices, who are said to have engaged the police in the gun battle, have been identified as Habib Iddrisu and Alex Akunette, alias Yusif Tetteh. The names of three others were given only as Nartey, Tetteh and Nartei. They are all currently on the run. The swoop was also to enable the police to pick leads on members of Dawood Tetteh�s gang which killed a policeman and injured three others last Saturday. As of the time of filing this report, the suspects were being screened at the Accra Regional Police Headquarters where a large crowd had gathered to see them. The suspects had been driven there by police and military personnel, amidst singing, making onlookers think that Dawood Tetteh had been arrested. Lance Corporal Ernest Asamoah died instantly on Saturday when he was shot about 12:30 a.m. after he and his colleagues had gone to Tuba, near Weija, to arrest an alleged notorious armed robber. L/Cpl Asamoah left behind a pregnant wife. The three others who sustained injuries are Corporal Joseph Engme, Corporal Samuel Owusu and Lance Corporal Prince Okyere. They are currently on admission at the Police Hospital in Accra. The robbers opened fire when the police reached Dawood Tetteh�s residence, where they (robbers) had laid ambush, killing L/Cpl Asamoah instantly and causing severe injuries to the three others. The Deputy Accra Regional Crime Officer, Superintendent Baffour Appenteng, told the Daily Graphic yesterday that the police would do everything in their power to keep the nation�s capital calm. He urged financial institutions and supermarkets to install closed-circuit television cameras (CCTV) on their premises as an additional security measure. He also advised institutions using police and private security guards to provide securer places for them, instead of leaving them in the open. Supt Appenteng said criminals often took advantage of the open places the police and private security guards sat to open fire at them before perpetrating their robbery activities. On Dawood and his gang, he said any person who provided information leading to their arrest would benefit from the Police Administration�s informant reward.