{"id":76800,"date":"2025-10-16T18:51:47","date_gmt":"2025-10-16T18:51:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=76800"},"modified":"2025-10-16T18:51:47","modified_gmt":"2025-10-16T18:51:47","slug":"dhq-blames-payment-delay-on-system-glitches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/10\/16\/dhq-blames-payment-delay-on-system-glitches\/","title":{"rendered":"DHQ Blames Payment Delay on System Glitches"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Onyeanya Ebere Immaculata<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The Defence Headquarters (DHQ), has attributed the delay in soldiers\u2019 Ration Cash Allowance (RCA), payments to financial system glitches, dismissing claims that field commanders are hoarding funds.<\/p>\n<p>Maj.-Gen. Magnus Kangye, Director of Defence Media Operations, clarified during a press briefing in Abuja on Thursday that no commander would intentionally withhold troops\u2019 entitlements.<\/p>\n<p>He explained that the delays, reported by troops under Operations Fasan Yamma and Whirl Stroke, were due to technical issues within the payment system, not negligence.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDelays of a day or two can happen due to transaction hitches, but all allowances will be paid,\u201d Kangye assured. \u201cNo field commander would allow his soldiers to go hungry or demoralized.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He likened the problem to ordinary banking delays, emphasizing that the military remains committed to troop welfare despite system challenges.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Onyeanya Ebere Immaculata &nbsp; The Defence Headquarters (DHQ), has attributed the delay in soldiers\u2019 Ration Cash Allowance (RCA), payments to financial system glitches, dismissing claims that field commanders are hoarding funds. Maj.-Gen. Magnus Kangye, Director of Defence Media Operations, clarified during a press briefing in Abuja on Thursday that no commander would intentionally withhold [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":76801,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76800","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76800","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76800"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76800\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76802,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76800\/revisions\/76802"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/76801"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}