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SAN FERNANDO CITY, La Union, Mar. 5 (PIA) - - A pregnant member of the New People’s Army (NPA), who surrendered recently to the officials of the army’s 702nd Brigade, was validated as a qualified recipient of the benefits from the Enhanced- Comprehensive Livelihood Integration Program (E-CLIP).
Major Rogelio Dumbrigue, Jr., the chief of the civil-military operations of the army’s 702nd Infantry Brigade, said that the Joint AFP-PNP Intelligence Committee (JAPIC) certified Sherry May Ibao, 22, as eligible to receive at least P65,000.00 livelihood assistance from E-CLIP.
Ibao, AKA Jerry/Laila, an active member of the Komiteng Larangang Guerilya - Southern Ilocos Sur of the Ilocos Cordillera Regional Committee (KLG -SIS, ICRC) of the NPA from 2015 to 2020, was six-month pregnant when she surrendered to authorities on January 4, 2021 in Bangued, Abra through the assistance of her parents from Eastern Samar Province. ....
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. ....