 Ajba was last seen on 9 October 1992 in Sukhumi, less than two months after the entrance of the Georgian military at the start of the 1992–1993 war, as he and three others were driven off in a bus by Georgian guards into an unknown direction.According to unconfirmed reports, Ajba was tortured and shot dead.Ajba's first collection of poetry, entitled simply 'Poems', was published in 1968.