Prime Minister Najib Abdul Razak may claim to have no power of the rise and fall in fuel prices, but PKR vice president Rafizi Ramli believes this is hogwash.

Rafizi said Najib has both direct and indirect control over the matter.

In a statement today Rafizi said Najib is the head of government, and it is the government that decides the formula to calculate the weekly price of fuel; that fuel prices be updated weekly; that sets a guaranteed profit and maintenance cost for petrol dealers companies; that RON97 be subject to the goods and services tax; and to abolish fuel subsidies...