The wife of Rivers State Governor, Dame Judith Amaechi for the first time has cleared the air, dismissing the rumour purporting that she once served as house maid during her formative years.

Mrs. Amaechi made the clarification recently during the “Celebrity read a book session” with selected schools at the 2014 UNESCO, Port Harcourt Literary and Book Festival.

The first lady’s clarification was in response to a question posed by one of the students who wanted to know if she was once a house maid in the past before her present status.

Hear her: “There is nothing wrong in being a house maid, it is a process and path to success, but I want to state emphatically and unequivocally that I was never and had never served as house maid to any one, it is unfair, this is falsehood and our children must be insulated from lies and propaganda, let’s learn to train them on the path of truth, integrity and righteousness”.

“My mother died when I was four, my aunty, Mrs Ndukue, an educationist who is my mother’s sister took over my responsibilities.  We first lived in the north before coming back to Port Harcourt where she worked at the Ministry of Education.

“I had the privilege of attending highbrow primary school, that is the Port Harcourt Primary School. I made one of the best results, sat for entrance examination into the Unity School, and I was admitted into the Federal Government Girls’ College, Abuloma. These  are schools reserved for children of the influential and top echelon in our society.  Will any housemaid be admitted into such schools? This is just an attempt to smear my reputation. Subsequently, I was admitted into the Rivers State University of Science and Technology, (RSUST) where I studied Urban and Regional Planning”.

“God used my aunty and her husband to touch and impact my life positively in their areas of influence.  My mother was from Ndoni in Rivers State, so it is very easy to investigate my background”.