Sani Dantuni Bello

Sani Dantuni Bello has over eight years experience serving as an investigator, and currently serves as Unit head of the Intelligence and International Cooperation unit at the National Agency for the Prohibition of Persons in NAPTIP Sokoto zonal office. He is responsible for coordinating the collection, analysis and dissemination of intelligence, particularly as it relates to Trafficking in Persons (TIP). He trains law enforcement officers and civil society organizations on issues including victim identification, TIP investigation, and child protection. He attended the Regional Academy for Drug Control, Jos, State Services Academy, Lagos and the International Law Enforcement Academy, Gaborone Botswana and hold a Bachelor of Science in Botany and a masters degree in Gender, Environment and Development from Usmanu Danfodiyo University, Sokoto. Upon completion of the Washington Fellowship, he plans to conduct training and sensitization workshops on the trafficking and labor exploitation of the Almajiri children; a category of vulnerable children exploited in Northern Nigeria, to help build the capacity of the NAPTIP, law enforcement officers and NGO’s as well as create awareness in the communities.