According to Lulume Bayiga, the Executive Chairperson of the People’s Front for Freedom (PFF) party, since November 2020, and continuing throughout the 2026 electoral cycle, the JDP has recorded an ongoing pattern of state-linked abductions where some security agents in plain clothes or military attire, driving unmarked minibuses, have seized opposition supporters, campaign organizers, polling agents, and civic activists from streets and homes.
The Teso Tourism Symposium that occurred from July 19–20, 2024, it was a great opportunity that was meant to highlight Teso's tourism potential worldwide, but the event's turn-up was very low, with barely one hundred people showing up on the first day.