Former President John Dramani Maha­ma, the NDC's flag­bearer for the 2024 general election, has provided clarity on the party's, 'No Fees Stress' policy. The party at the launch of its Youth Manifesto in Accra, revealed that if it won the December polls, it would absorb academic user facility fees, a component of the fees, for first year students into all public tertiary institutions. Mr Mahama interacting with journalists after the programme The flagbearer, at a townhall meeting with the Youth at Ho as part of his just ended four-day campaign tour of the Volta Region, said the policy would cushion parents and students from bearing full cost of the fees for 'freshers' which is higher than those of con­tinuing students. For example, the NDC flag­bearer cited the story of a medical student in the Upper East Region who had passed his WASSCE, got admission to study medicine at the university but could not proceed because his parents could not raise the fees to make his dream of be­coming a medical doctor a reality. "So we don't want, especially first years to go through what we call the fee stress and that is why we call it no fee stress policy. We'll absorb the academic user facility fees but it will not affect the subventions of government to the universities.