Nuhu Ribadu was at the National Hospital Abuja today to sympathize  with victims of the Friday bomb blasts in Abuja.He arrived at the the emergency ward of the hospital at about 1.45pm and was led  into the ward  by some officials .Ribadu the ACN presidential candidate  greeted all those in the ward including non victims of the blast who were also on admission .

After meeting the victims Ribadu told reporters:``I think time has come for us to really get serious and change this country in a way that we don’t have to be living with this type of thing.Issue of security is a challenge.Law enforcement must take the responsibility,must do what is right. Government must protect its people'

It was learnt that he came to the hospital from the family residence of Tahir Ibrahim Biu one of the people  killed by the bombs.Tahir was a  staff of FFECC who worked very closely with Ribadu when he was EFCC chairman

At the hospital Ribadu who is the presidential candidate on the platform of ACN stated  that  the issue of security remains a challenge and government must rise up to it.

Read Ribadu’s full comments at the National hospital below:

``I am here and I have seen the victims .It is sad,it is tragic.These are innocent people.These are people who don’t have anything to do with what is going on.And I think those who do have reasons to protest must understand that people are out there,innocent people that do not derserve this,it is injustice, it is not fair.They have made people orphans .They have made people lose their own children.They should also understand that they have relations.They have made people widows today with that act.

``I think violence ,violence will not in anyway take us anywhere and they must learn from history.They must learn from other countries.Look at what has been happening in Congo,up till now, nothing with all the loss of lives,Rwanda, even Somalia , at the end you will still come back to square one,even Norhern Ireland,they have fought for close to thirty years,they have killed and maimed.At the end they are all back to where they started  talking.It is ability for you to seat down and reason that could get us results.

``I think time has come for them to understand that this unnecessary, uncalled for,unjust,unfair racts of violence they are visiting on individuals who have nothing to do withthis will not take us anywhere.It has given us a terrible bad name.The day we ought to be celebtrating 5o years of our own independence, it has taken us back

``Though I can understand, I can perfectly see reason in the reason why people  somehow disagree and want to show their won displeasure with the way thins are,but taking innocent lives is not the answer.People have lost their lives and they are also human beings.And they have nothing to do with this.They are innocent people.This is injustice.Injustice to them, to their own families and to Nigerians.Please let them rethink their own position.

``(On Tahir)..I lost somebody,I lost a staff of EFCC. One of the young Nigerians that we took time to train and an amazingly good chap,a young man with    promise in his life who  got married not long ago with one child,but very,very  much ready to contribute and make Nigeria a better place.I know a chap who is truly a Nigerian … who was desperate to see  justice is done in our own country;they have taken his life.And that is a big minus for us for us.I have suffered it, I  have really been in grief .. but   I have decided also to come and see those people who are here to also pray that we never see such a thing again in our own country.  I think time has come for us to really get serious and change this country in a way that we don’t have to be living with this type of thing.Issue of security is a challenge.Law enforcement must take the responsibility,must do what is right. Government must protect its people…..’’