Ten Move­ment for So­cial Jus­tice (MSJ) ap­pointees to state boards have heed­ed a call from the par­ty's po­lit­i­cal leader, David Ab­du­lah, to re­sign be­cause of con­cerns over the is­sue of gov­er­nance un­der the Peo­ple's Part­ner­ship Gov­ern­ment. Ab­du­lah made the call dur­ing a news con­fer­ence host­ed by the MSJ on the eve of the May 24 sec­ond-an­niver­sary ral­ly of the PP. A re­lease is­sued by MSJ's gen­er­al sec­re­tary, Ozzi War­wick, said yes­ter­day the MSJ ap­pointees who quit were on Boards of:

• Lake As­phalt

• NP

• Petrotrin

• T&TEC

• UTT

• NED­CO

• iGovTT

• Live­stock and Live­stock Prod­ucts

• The Ex­port Cen­tres Com­pa­ny

War­wick said the MSJ was re­it­er­at­ing "its com­mit­ment to the prin­ci­ples of good gov­er­nance." He said the labour-based par­ty, which is one of the five-mem­ber PP coali­tion, "stands by its state­ment that there is a great need to change that sys­tem of gov­er­nance."