The New Patriotic Party (NPP) says it has been vindicated by the Finance Minister’s statement that the economy is on course. The opposition party said the statement by the Finance Minister Dr Kwabena Duffour shows that the Ghanaian economy is not ‘broken’, as recently described by the NDC. In a press release issued on Tuesday, the NPP said the NDC’s broken economy rhetoric is simply a means of scoring cheap political points. The NPP maintains that the economy’s growth of 7.3 percent in 2008 was the country’s fastest economic growth in 30 years. Speaking to Joy News, NPP Communications Director, Kwaku Kwarteng, said if the economy was as bad as the NDC had painted, then it would not have been possible to get it back on course in just five months. “What the people of this country were told that the economy was in tatters and that we would need to do a lot to reverse the trend. Where did the recovery come from? The answer is simple; the economy was never broke in the first place,” Mr Kwarteng told journalists in Accra. He described as rhetoric the situation where the ruling party would lash out at the previous government for “messing” the economy. “It was a rhetoric from the previous administration to discredit the former administration in order to achieve what I respectfully call parochial domestic political interest. If you can fix the economy in five months not by putting in more resources but merely by checking expenditure then we have to interrogate that suggestion again,” he emphasised.