In what can best be described as a blood bath, gunmen kill a businessman, his pregnant wife, sales boy and customer in Abia State
By Chinedu Oguh, Port Harcourt
The family and community of Ohokobe Ndume Ibeku in Umuahia North Local Government Area of Abia State have been thrown into mourning after gunmen brutally killed a young businessman, his pregnant wife and two others in Arondizuogu, Imo State.
Tentacle learnt that the victims were identified as 34-year old Obinna Kaburu, his wife, Ifeyinwa Kaburu, who was six months pregnant, their sales boy and a customer. The deadly attack occurred on July 24, 2025, at the couple’s Point of Sale (POS) shop in Akunwata, Arondizuogu.
Speaking though tears, 80 years old Onyekwere Kaburu, father of the slain businessman said he had lost not just a son, but also a daughter-in-law and an unborn grandchild in one night of senseless violence.
“Since this incident happened, I have not been happy, I have been a sad man. We are all mourning, losing two family members is depressing” he lamented.
According to Daily Observer reports, Obinna whose promising life was cut short was a graduate of Building Engineering from Federal Polytechnic Nekede, Owerri.
After graduating, Tentacle further gathered from Daily Observer reports, he established a thriving aluminum parapet business and later expanded into POS operation with his wife. The couple both 34, managed the business together while raising their four children – the elders an eight years old girl still in primary school.
The Kaburus had previously survived an armed robbery at their former shop in Nkwo Umuolum where gunmen armed with AK-47 rifles raided traders and emptied Ifeyinwa’s POS cash box. Following the incident, Onyekwere advised his son to relocate, prompting them to set up a new business in Akunwata – the very shop where they later met their deaths.
On how the deadly attack happened, an eye witness said the gunmen stormed the shop around 8:00pm on July 24, 2025 Obinna, his sales boy and a customer were the first victims shot dead on the spot. Moments earlier, Obinna had called Ifeyinwa who was at home to return to the shop to attend to a POS customer, unaware that armed men were already lying in wait.
Tragically, upon arrival, Ifeyinwa was shot in the stomach. She was rushed to the hospital where doctors performed a costly operation in a desperate bid to save her and her unborn child.
However, both of them did not survive, their bodies were later transported to Umuahia for burial, while their four young children were left in the care of grieving grandparents.
But Pa Onyekwere and his aging wife are saying that they are helpless. The burden is too heavy to bear. “I am old and my wife is old”. We are no longer doing anything, these children need help, the task of caring for four orphans is too heavy to bear.
Despite visits and sympathies from neighbours and relatives, Pa Onyekwere told the press that no coordinated community response has emerged, however, he believes his son may have been specially targeted since the gunmen by passed other shops to attack Obinnaꞌs.
But a source who pleaded anonymity told Tentacle that Arondizuogu has been under sustained attacks from armed gangs. The source further said that on the same night the gunmen carried out coordinated killings across different communities 14 people in Ndi Ejezie, 11 in Niewo Umualum and three at Obinnaꞌs shop in Akunwata bringing the total number of victims to 28.
For now, the family remains broken. An 80-year old father is left to mourn a son, daughter-in-law and unborn grandchild, while four young children must grow up without parent in a region increasingly plagued by violence.
