Joseph Chike Edozien
Joseph Chike Edozien,CFR,JP,Asagbako Sarkin gargajiya na Asaba,Jihar Delta,Nigeria an haife shi a ranar 28 ga Yuli 1922 a Asaba.

Iyali 
Mahaifinsa shi ne Nathaniel Okafor Edozien daga zuriyar Nnebisi wanda ya kafa Asaba,kuma daya daga cikin manyan jami'an 'yan asalin kasar na Kamfanin Coal Corporation a Enugu.Mahaifiyarsa, Nwakuso Edozien née Odogwu,diyar wani fitaccen sarkin Asaba ce,kuma fitaccen dan kasuwa.

Ilimi 
Mahaifinsa ya aike shi tun yana karami domin ya zauna da wani kawu wanda ya kasance babban malamin makaranta a Warri,Jihar Delta sai Jihar Bendel,Najeriya.Ya halarci Makarantar Katolika a Warri daga 1933 zuwa 1937.Ya halarci makarantar Christ the Kings College da ke Onitsha don karatun sakandare daga 1938 zuwa 1942.A 1942 ya halarci Higher College Yaba sannan ya wuce makarantar Achimota,Accra,Ghana .

Iliminsa na jami'a ya fara ne tare da shiga Jami'ar Kwalejin Dublin,Ireland a cikin 1944.Ya kammala karatunsa na BSc tare da karramawa a fannin ilimin halittar jiki daga Jami'ar Kasa ta Ireland a 1948,MSc a Physiology a 1950,Bachelor of Medicine da Bachelor of Surgery (MBBCh)a 1954.Ya lashe kyaututtukan ilimi da dama a cikin wannan tsari.

Sana'a 
Aikin karatunsa ya fara ne da alƙawari a matsayin malami a Clinical Biochemistry a Makarantar Kiwon Lafiya ta Asibitin Middlesex,Jami'ar London a 1951.A shekarar 1952 aka nada shi babban malami a fannin ilimin kimiyyar sinadarai a Kwalejin Jami’ar Ibadan.Ya koma Ibadan bayan ya kara karatu a Ireland.

A shekarar 1955,ya auri Modupe Smith wani mai daukar hoto a asibitin koyarwa na Jami’ar Ibadan.Mahaifinta na ɗaya daga cikin ƴan asalin ƙasar farko manajoji na Kamfanin United Africa kuma kakanta na wajen uwa shine Herbert Macaulay,mai binciken Najeriya na farko kuma ɗaya daga cikin manyan ƴan wasan ƙwararrun ƴancin Najeriya.

Marigayi lokacin mulkin mallaka da farkon ’yancin kai lokaci ne mai kayatarwa a Nijeriya.’Yan Najeriya masu ilimi cikin hanzari sun mamaye mukaman siyasa da kasuwanci da ilimi .Fatan kowa ya yi yawa na cewa cikin kankanin lokaci kasar za ta dinke barakar da ke tsakanin kasashen Turai da Arewacin Amurka.Halin jin daɗi ya mamaye Jami'ar Ibadan,kuma binciken da Edozien ya yi a kan abinci mai gina jiki ya taimaka mata wajen samun suna a matsayin cibiyar ilimi mai tasowa.An nada shi farfesa a 1961 kuma ya zama Dean na Faculty of Medicine a 1962.

Ƙaura 
Aikin Edozien a Ibadan ya kare ne a shekarar 1967,wanda ya yi sanadin asarar rikicin siyasar da ya kawo karshen farin ciki a karshen shekarun 1950 da farkon 1960 kuma ya haifar da juyin mulki a shekarar 1966 daga karshe ya kai ga yakin basasar Najeriya .A shekarar 1967 ya taka rawar gani wajen kokarin kafa jami'ar Benin a sabuwar yankin tsakiyar yammacin Najeriya .Ya kuma kasance yana da hannu a cikin makircin da ya haifar da mamaye yankin tsakiyar yamma na Biafra a farkon yakin basasa wanda aka tilastawa barin kasar.

Bayan wani lokaci a matsayin ɗan gudun hijira a Faransa,an nada shi a matsayin farfesa a fannin Gina Jiki a Cibiyar Fasaha ta Massachusetts, Cambridge,MA .A 1971 ya zama farfesa kuma shugaban Sashen Gina Jiki,na Makarantar Kiwon Lafiyar Jama'a na Jami'ar North Carolina .

Najeriya 
A cikin 1990 an nada Edozien a matsayin shugaban Cibiyar Nazarin Likitoci ta Najeriya .Jim kadan bayan haka aka zabe shi ya zama Asagba na 13 na Asaba.A 2012,an nada shi Eze Ndieze.Ya yi ritaya a matsayin Farfesa Emeritus na Jami'ar North Carolina kuma ya dawo Najeriya a 1991.

Zaman Edozien a matsayin Asagba na Asaba ya zo daidai da sauye-sauye masu ban mamaki a halin garin.Lokacin da gwamnatin shugaban kasa Ibrahim Babangida ta kirkiro jihar Delta daga tsohuwar jihar Bendel aka zabi Asaba a matsayin babban birnin kasar.Sabon matsayinta na kujerar gwamnatin jihar ya kawo ci gaba mai cike da rudani da ke tattare da ci gaban biranen Najeriya a wannan zamani.Yawan al’ummar garin ya karu kuma kwararowar ‘yan asalin garin da ba Asaba ba ya dagula al’adun gargajiyar garin.

Babban jigon zaman Edozien a matsayin Asagba shine kalubalen daidaita ci gaba cikin sauri,sabunta ka'idoji da cibiyoyi na gargajiya tare da kiyaye kyawawan al'amura da daidaita tasirin dabi'u na gargajiya .Shirye-shirye da dama da ke ci gaba da gudana kamar gidan sarauta na dindindin na Asaba da cibiyar jama'a da kuma takardun dokokin gargajiya da al'adun gargajiya na garin sun nemi daidaita wadannan matsalolin.

Edozien ya kasance muhimmin jigo a harkokin Najeriya na zamani.Shugaba Olusegun Obasanjo ya ba shi lambar girma ta kasa ta Kwamandan Tarayyar Najeriya a 2003.Har ila yau,ya kasance daya daga cikin manyan sarakunan gargajiya da ke karfafawa da karfafa zaman tare,musamman tsakanin al’ummar kudanci da Arewacin Nijeriya.

Sannan kuma shi ne Shugaban Jami'ar Aikin Gona ta Tarayya da ke Abeokuta.

Manazarta 
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