So­cial me­dia ac­tivist and for­mer Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress (UNC) gov­ern­ment min­is­ter De­vant Ma­haraj said he is no longer in­ter­est­ed in pur­su­ing the Free­dom of In­for­ma­tion Act (FOIA) that re­quest­ed in­for­ma­tion about the ex­emp­tion pol­i­cy, process and who ap­plied.

In fact he said he will not be do­ing work for the UNC.

Ma­haraj had sent the FOIA back in Ju­ly and Wednes­day the Per­ma­nent Sec­re­tary at the Min­istry of Na­tion­al Se­cu­ri­ty shut it down.

In a me­dia re­lease, PS Gary Joseph made it very clear that the in­for­ma­tion be­ing sought was out of bounds.

“The doc­u­ment re­quest­ed is ex­empt since its dis­clo­sure would in­volve the un­rea­son­able dis­clo­sure of per­son­al in­for­ma­tion of in­di­vid­u­als,” Joseph said in the re­sponse.

Joseph al­so di­rect­ed Ma­haraj that if “ag­griev­ed” by the de­ci­sion, he had three months to ap­ply for a Ju­di­cial Re­view.

“You may al­so lodge a com­plaint in writ­ing with­in 21 days from the date of the no­tice to the Of­fice of the Om­buds­man,” Joseph wrote.

But Ma­haraj, who was vol­un­teer­ing for the Op­po­si­tion in Ju­ly when he sent the re­quest yes­ter­day said he was no longer pur­su­ing the mat­ter.

“I am no longer in­ter­est­ed in the UNC and the pol­i­tics of drunks and dead­beats, pimps and pros­ti­tutes,” he said.

Ma­haraj and his lawyers had al­ready draft­ed a copy of the Ju­di­cial Re­view doc­u­ment, which would now not be filed.

“There are 19 elect­ed UNC MP’s paid to do a job with staff and re­sources to as­sist...I am no longer in­ter­est­ed in do­ing their job,” Ma­haraj said.

Ma­haraj open­ly chal­lenged Op­po­si­tion leader Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar for the lead­er­ship of UNC dur­ing the par­ty’s in­ter­nal elec­tion on De­cem­ber 6.

He dropped out of the race be­fore the day of the elec­tion but weeks be­fore blast­ed Per­sad-Bisses­sar on so­cial me­dia and open­ly called for her to step down as leader.

Ac­cord­ing to Ma­haraj’s FOIA, he sought in­for­ma­tion on all ap­pli­ca­tions sub­mit­ted by per­sons or groups of per­sons who were grant­ed ap­proval to en­ter the coun­try by the Min­is­ter of Na­tion­al Se­cu­ri­ty as well as a list of peo­ple who were grant­ed ex­emp­tions.

Ma­haraj was al­so pro­vid­ed with a de­tailed list of the cri­te­ria for se­lec­tion which in­clud­ed per­sons with crit­i­cal health is­sues, per­sons with new­borns or young chil­dren and whether the State had the space to house them.