Kumasi's most notorious armed robber Awudu Karim who gave professional prostitutes and other unsuspecting lady-victims a bash up the anal passage often and often, spent his last days on earth being haunted down by the Police like there was no tomorrow, THE SUN can confirm today.

Awudu who would take nothing in return or a drill up the anus of lady-victims was cut to size, when three staccato shots from a soldier's weapon fast-forwarded him to a death residents swear was long overdue.

Following his death and that of yet another dangerous armed robber by name GAMBO, satisfied Kumasi residents say they can now go to sleep and leave their doors open because neither of the two would ever dream of resurrecting to engineer yet another spate of robbery.

THE SUN'S investigations which have been corroborated by Police sources in Kumasi tell of a hunting down by the military cum Police bunch of anti-armed robbery squad, who eventually made Awudu's last days a real hell.

Exactly 24 hours to his death, Awudu, reputed to have been soaked to the marrow with juju such that not even the report of an AK 47 assault rifle into his belly could harm him, had been on his usual robbery spree.

Insiders have alleged that on that Black Friday Awudu's first port of call was the suburban Krofuom where he seized a bottle of Guinness from a shell-shocked drinking bar operator and angered him the more with his refusal to pay for the drink.

After the exchanges between the two during which Awudu barked several threats, he burst into a second drinking spot where he gulped down six more bottles of Guinness. When the bar attendant demanded payment the robber flew into a tantrum and succeeded in snatching the attendant's wife's cell phone, and bolted into the July Kumasi night.

A worried observer who had known Awudu's escapades for years alerted the Police, who promptly responded with the shadowing game. The combined Police cum military team decided to follow the beastly rogue to satisfy themselves with additional information.

Awudu however managed to outwit them and so at a point in time he vamoosed on the radar of the team well beyond trace. Apparently the not-too-stupid rogue had sensed danger and so decided he had to travel out of town to perhaps Navrongo. But as fate would have it the plan was punctured by Satan's refusal to make Awudu upstage him in the roguery stakes, the lad headed for Navrongo electing to board a bus at the station. The first bus had only just been full when Awudu got to the Ala Bar Spot, just near Poku Transport.

"Over there he had to wait for the next bus but all this while the combined military cum Police team had located him yet again, and were trailing him to a secluded or better-still a safe place for arrest", a source told THE SUN. According to her, Awudud bought a ticket and placed his bag, said to be full of charms and locally manufactured pistols on one of the seats of the bus and with a tinge of suspicion all over him, decided to hang around just in case. But the anti-robbery team closed in after hours of shadowing him. Feeling so trapped, he drew two knives to attack only for a soldier to let-go a shot at his back followed by a two-some and the machoistic Awudu crumbled to the ground like a pack of cards, with blood flowing freely. Eye-witnesses told THE SUN that had Awudu seen the soldier firing at him he would have escaped death because one of his talismanic juju protected him from death if indeed he was first to see whoever was firing at him. Soon after his death according to Police, the crowds began to form around his body as they poured curses at it. Of the lot who rained insults and the like, Yaa Bruwaa, thought to be one of the many call girls who suffered brutish bashings up the anus of the beastly Awudu resulting in her wearing pampers looked to be outstanding in the cursing game. All the same other protesters who spoke to THE SUN told tales of Awudu’s fear-gripping expedition on even elderly market women at Atonsu, also a Kumasi suburb. “He would come with his lady accomplice and pick the biggest of the juiciest fishes, meat, foodstuffs and all that go to preparing fufu and light soup without paying a pesewa for it all”, Akosua Antwiwaa a market woman and mother of five told THE SUN. This confirmed the fact that not only was Awudu’s groin a most titillating and soothing tool, he also had great taste for food as well. But by far the most esoteric discovery had to do with the piece of unconfirmed news about a past brush with inevitable death. According to a mole who wants to remain under the cloak of secrecy, some two years ago a soldier of northern extraction missed killing Awudu and only succeeded in brushing his stomach with a bullet, leaving a scar for a reminder. Somehow, Awudu was said to have found the soldier’s cell phone number and threatened him with death calls, telling him even if it took half a century he would finish him off. Ironically according to the mole it was this same soldier who cut him down with three shots when he pulled two knives to battle the Police.

Awudu's death should see Kumasi joyous but then passengers ion that Navrongo-bound bus need to thank God Almighty ceaselessly for as a search in his bag later revealed, he would have terrorized them all through the trip to the final destination.