Nigeria, June 30 -- A book authored by a 16-year-old Nigerian girl, Maadiah Johnson, was on Saturday launched in Uyo, Akwa Ibom State.

The book, Clawed to Death, is a fictional prose about a boy who lost his father at a tender age and had to struggle all the way, against all odds.

"We (women) are not meant to be raped, butchered, murdered and trafficked," Miss Johnson, an SS2 student, said at the launch, apparently denouncing the rise in gender-based violence in Nigeria.

The 26-year-old female job-seeker, Iniubong Umoren was raped and brutally killed in April in Uyo by a 20-year-old man, Uduak Akpan who had lured her with a fake job offer.

Nigerians have been putting pressure on the police to bring Miss Umoren's killers to justice.

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