Punch Newspapers Sections Published 17 May 2021 THE call for Expressions of Interest from investors to purchase five state-owned electricity power generation companies raises both hope and trepidation. The Bureau of Public Enterprises, on behalf of the National Council on Privatisation and the Niger Delta Power Holding Company, is putting the GenCos on the auction block as part of the ongoing reforms and the privatisation programme, to improve the country’s troubled power sector and raise funds. Investor and public optimism is however tempered by the dismal outcome of the flawed 2013 power asset sales and fear that this round could well go the same sordid way.