Lobby group Citizens' Action for Principles and Integrity (CAPI) said in a release to the media yesterday that it has launched a social media campaign on Facebook and Twitter, entitled: #NHTBOARDMUSTRESIGN and #OUTAMENIONEPPL, to push for the resignation of the NHT's board, including its chairman Easton Douglas.

According to CAPI's co-convenor, Dennis Meadows, the campaign is an effective way of people, both here and overseas, communicating to the government, particularly the NHT portfolio minister, Prime Minister Portia Simpson-Miller, their disapproval and dissatisfaction with the decision taken by the NHT board to acquire a loss-making attraction with contributors' funds and without statutory authority.

"Further, the decision runs counter to the government's stated policy of divesting itself of non-core operations and is contrary to the Trust's statutory mandate, i.e. the provision of low-incoming housing solutions for its contributors," Meadows stressed in the release.

"We aim to bring pressure on the prime minister to act decisively to safeguard the interest of contributors' funds, if the board fails to be moved by their sense of character and resign," he added.

CAPI is further contending that "the position of the board is tenuous as it has failed in its fiduciary responsibilities to be judicious and prudent in the management of the National Housing Trust funds which, in fact, is the property of NHT contributors and not board's to spend at will".