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Seventh Infantry Division (7
th ID) Civil Military Operations (CMO) Commanding Officer Maj. Rogelio Dumbrigue said he had to negotiate with a member of the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP)-New People’s Army (NPA) just to let Sherry Ibao come down the mountain and surrender because of her condition.
Ibao, who was also known as Jerry and Laila, was a fresh graduate of the University of the Philippines (UP)-Manila, and a member of militant group Anakbayan before she was taken in by the NPA for a tour-of-duty in the Ilocos Region in 2015.
According to Dumbrigue, he had to “beg” with the one of the personal assistants of a CPP-NPA leader in the region to allow Ibao and a few other comrades to just surrender to the government.