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PM kicks for touch on fuel, food prices

A bird's eye view of TOP's oil refinery, one of six refineries in the country.

Wise men say putting the right man in the right job will get it done and done well. So when Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha last week assigned the National Security Council (NSC) to take the lead in tackling energy and food problems, many eyebrows were raised, questioning the rationale of such bizarre idea.

Move Forward party-list MP Woraphob Viriyaroj said he thought it was a fake news because it sounds weird that an economic problem would be solved through security means. He said the Energy Ministry is empowered to solve the problem, but it sits idly by.

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