Dr Clement Apaak, MP for Builsa South The budgetary allocation to the Office of the President under Mahama will be reduced drastically as part of measures to raise revenue to fund the 'no academic fees for level 100 students' initiative, Buisla South lawmaker, Dr Clement Apaak, has said. Dr Apaak indicated that currently, the budgetary allocation to the office of the presidency under President Akufo-Addo is in billions of Cedis. This will be reduced drastically under Mahama administration, he said. In addition to this, he said, the government will tackle corruption and bock revenue leakages in order to raise funds for this programme. Explaining what occasioned the announcement of the 'no academic fees for level 100 students' initiative the ranking member on the education committee of Parliament said on the News Central on TV3 on Tuesday, August 13, that "in our interactions with young people, given the challenges that they face we became intimately aware that one of the challenges in accessing and taking their places in tertiary education had to do with the ability, particularly for first-year students to pay. "As a party whose focus is, as expressed by the flagbearer, to address the challenge of youth unemployment, it was decided that one of the ways that we can assist young people to pursue academic dreams is to propose a policy that will allow young people to go through the first year of university education free of charge." Asked how the programme will be sustained, he answered "we can mobilise the resources. "Currently the budgetary allocation to the Office of the President has been ballooned into billions of Cedis. "We will not be making those levels of allocation to the office of presidency.