Joseph Tarka
Sanata Joseph Sarwuan Tarka (1932–1980) ɗan siyasan Nijeriya ne daga Jihar Benuwai kuma tsohon Ministan Sufuri sannan kuma Sadarwa a lokacin Janar Yakubu Gowon . Ya kasance daya daga cikin membobin da suka kafa United Middle Belt Congress, kungiyar siyasa da ta himmatu wajen karewa da kuma ba da shawara ga yankin na Middle Belt

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Bayan Fage 
An haifi Tarka a ranar 10 ga watan Yulin shekarar 1932 a garin Igbor, Jihar Benuwai daga dangin Tarka Nanchi da Ikpa Anyam. Mahaifinsa malamin ƙauye ne na asalin Tiv  wanda daga baya ya zama shugaban makarantar sannan kuma ya zama sarki a Mbakor, yankin Gboko . Ya halarci makarantar firamare ta Native Authority, Gboko da Katsina Ala Middle School. Bayan kammala karatunsa, ya zama malami a makarantar Middle-Katsina-Ala kafin ya ci gaba da kara karatu a Makarantar Kimiyya ta Karkara ta jihar Bauchi. Ya kasance memba na Tiv Native Authority Staff Union da kuma kungiyar Malaman Arewa.

Jamhuriya ta Farko 
A shekarar 1954, akan tikitin kawance da kungiyar Middle Belt People, an zabi Tarka ya wakilci mazabar Jemgba a majalisar wakilai ta tarayya. A cikin shekarar 1957, Jam'iyyar Jama'a ta Tsakiya ta haɗu tare da David Lot suka jagoranci kungiyar Yankin Tsakiya don kafa kungiyar 'Yan United Middle Belt Congress. Tarka sannan ya zama shugaban United Middle Belt Congress (UMBC), ba da daɗewa ba jam'iyyar ta kulla kawance da Action Group, wacce ke da rinjaye a Yankin Yammaci. Kungiyar Action ta bukaci tallafi don hadewar Ilorin da Kabba tare da Yankin Yamma kuma UMBC na son kirkirar Yankin Tsakiya.Tarka ya kasance memba ne da aka zaba a taron Tsarin Mulki na Nijeriya na shekarar 1957 kuma ya kasance wakilin yankin Middle Belt a kwamitin Willinks na shekarar 1958. A shekarar 1958, an nada shi a matsayin inuwar ministan kasuwanci. Tarka ta UMBC, galibi jam’iyyar kirista ce ta fafata a gabanin samun ‘yancin kai na shekara ta 1959 da kuma wanda ya biyo baya na 1963 a kan mafi akasarin Moslem Northern People’s Congress. Dukkanin zabukan guda biyu sun haifar da rikici a yankin na Middle Belt, wanda ya taimaka ga karfin sojan da Manjo Chukwuma Kaduna Nzeogwu ya yi a ranar 15 ga watan Janairun shekarar 1966. Tarka ya kasance mai ba da shawara ga kirkirar jihohi don ba da dama ga siyasa da tattalin arziki don tallafawa kananan kabilu a cikin kasar. Ya goyi bayan ƙirƙirar ƙasar Middle Belt kafin a yanke jamhuriya. 

A watan Afrilun shekarar 1961, shekara guda bayan rikici a yankin Tiv, an tsare Tarka na tsawon makonni uku a jihar Jos karkashin binciken sirri na cin amanar kasa da haddasa rikici a lokacin rikicin Tiv., Kamun nasa ya kasance saura wata daya a gudanar da zaben yanki. A shekarar 1962, UMBC wanda kungiyar Action Group ta basu kudi suka yanke shawarar kawo karshen kawancen su na sabon tare da NEPU. Sabuwar kungiyar ana kiranta Northern People Front tare da Aminu Kano a matsayin Shugaba da Tarka a matsayin Babban Sakatare. 

A cikin shekarar 1962, tare da sauran shugabannin ƙungiyar Action Group, an kama shi bisa zargin aikata laifin cin amanar ƙasa amma an sake shi saboda rashin hujja.

Daga baya aiki 
Bayan Janar Gowon ya hau karagar mulki a watan Agustan shekarar 1966, an nada Tarka Kwamishinan Sufuri na Tarayya sannan na Sadarwa, ya yi murabus a shekarar 1974 bayan da aka buga zargin rashawa daga wani dan Tiv mai suna Godwin Daboh. Paul Unongo da gwamnan jihar Benuwai-Plateau Joseph Gomwalk  ne suka ingiza Daboh matakin kuma dan sanda mai binciken Sunday Adewusi ne ya jagoranci bincike kan lamarin.

A ci gaba da maido da mulkin dimokiradiyya tare da Jamhuriya ta Biyu ta Najeriya, Tarka ya hada kai da ‘yan siyasar arewa suka kafa Jam’iyyar Najeriya ta kasa, a kan wannan tallafi ne bai samu nasarar zaɓen Shugaban kasa ba. An zabe shi Sanata ne na yankin Binuwai ta Gabas a shekarar 1979, sannan aka nada shi shugaban kwamitin Majalisar Dattawa kan harkokin kudi da kasaftawa, mukamin da ya rike lokacin da ya mutu a ranar 30 ga watan Maris, shekara ta 1980, yana da shekara 48. 

An zaɓi ɗansa, Simeon Tarka a Majalisar Wakilai a shekara ta 1979.

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