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New Patriotic Party (NPP) Member of Parliament (MP) for Asokwa in Kumasi, Maxwell Kofi Jumah, has likened President John Atta Mills to a thief, alleging that the NDC stole the 2008 polls. He has stated that President Mills stole the 2008 elections to become the president of Ghana, noting that but for the rigging, the NDC couldn�t have won the last polls. The Asokwa MP also alleged that some leading EC members were currently in bed with the NDC and were adopting strategies to help the ruling party to retain political power in 2012. Mr. Jumah, who looked fired up, alleged that the Director of Research and Monitoring at the EC recently attended an NDC Functionary Executive Meeting held at Shai Hills, where the party looked through pros and cons of the biometric registration. He wondered why a leading member of the EC, who ideally was supposed to be neutral to ensure hope in the EC among the various political parties, could attend a meeting of the NDC. Hon. Jumah said he was aware of all the diabolical plans of the NDC to rig the polls as it managed to do in 2008. He was addressing the KNUST branch of TESCON who were launching their 10th anniversary at the Republic Hall at the KNUST in Kumasi last Sunday. Touching on the NDC�s rigging of the 2008 polls, the Asokwa MP said, �The NDC had over 5000 full time employees hired to steal the elections across the country during the 2008 polls.� He alleged that �the NDC printed ballot papers which had the ten candidate Mills� section thumb printed. �Every polling station across the country, these thumb printed ballot papers were put in the ballot boxes. They put about five to 10 of the ballot papers in the box at very polling station.� He said the NDC could not win the next polls if the elections were held in a free and transparent manner, urging NPP followers to be vigilant during the election day in 2012. Hon. Jumah said the NDC�s stock in trade was to �lie and lie and lie and lie�, pointing out that the NDC believed the continuous lie could turn into truth so they would never stop lying to the electorate. The NDC, he noted, had institutionalized lying that was why it had propaganda secretaries at every constituency across the country, urging the populace to turn a deaf ear to the lies. He noted that the NDC�s guiding principles was to �create and chop� Ghana�s wealth without thinking about how to improve the lives of the people that voted them into office. Hon. Jumah expressed surprise that a school block project which was estimated at 800 million old cedis could now skyrocket to 2.5 billion old cedis within a space of three years. He said the sharp rise in the cost of the school projects under the NDC administration was an indication that the ruling government was ransacking the country�s scanty coffers.