ENERGY Regulation Board (ERB) Chairperson Reynold Bowa says people don’t seem to understand that fuel prices change daily. Recently, Zambia Must Prosper Leader Kelvin Fube Bwalya said the UPND government was exploiting citizens by increasing fuel prices. Commenting on this in an interview, Bowa said while the authority always considered making prices reviews as infrequent as possible, people needed to understand that fuel prices changed every day. “Government receives only its proper share of taxes. And there are taxes on everything, there are taxes on bread, there are taxes on cooking oil, there are taxes on everything, that’s how government revenue is raised. We always consider making the price review as infrequent as possible. We would like to do that....

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