A bereaved father Samuel Alozie has expressed sadness over the death of his nine-month-old identical twin sons, Testimony and Timothy, who reportedly died approximately 24 hours after receiving injections at a basic health care clinic in Lagos.
The terrible news went viral on Wednesday after Alozie shared a video on TikTok showing his sons’ bodies in separate body bags.
Alozie spoke in a follow-up video on Thursday, using the TikTok name #promise. Samuel099 described the events leading up to the incident.
He said that he took the boys for routine immunizations on the morning of December 24, 2025.
According to the father, the twins grew severely weak right after the injections and were unable to eat or play.
Despite the nurse’s advice to administer paracetamol and bathe them to relieve a rising temperature, the twins reportedly died on Christmas morning, December 25.
He said, “It happened that the immunization was conducted on the 24th of December, in the morning. And on the morning of 25th December, they died. On that 24th, after the injection, they were very weak, and I gave them paracetamol because the nurse said that if the temperature continued, I should give them paracetamol.
“I and my wife, after we left the health center, went home and gave the two of them paracetamol, which didn’t solve anything. We even bathed them. My wife bathed them in cold water. They died on the 25th. The two of them died at the same time. And the worst part of it is that the drug weakened two of them to the extent they couldn’t talk, they couldn’t eat, and they couldn’t play as usual, like they couldn’t disturb as they used to do.”
He said, “My twins, my nine-month-old children, they have killed them. You can’t tell me that my children, who were not sick, who were strong and sound… they are dead.”
He mentioned that since the twins were born, they have never experienced any serious illness.
“I’ll just give them paracetamol, and everything will calm down. My children are strong like me,” he said.
“I’m just confused. How can I lose two children, identical twins that I have suffered so much for? Just nine months, they were not sick. Just because I decided to fulfill the righteousness of taking them for immunization.
“On my own, I decided that I would take them to that place, not because they are sick. From the first day I gave birth to them, I’ve been taking them for immunization.”
He saw that the nurse on duty on the day of the final immunization was not the regular official who attended to them.
The devastated father also denied earlier claims from the health center, blaming the fatalities on “food bacteria.”
“The nurse is talking about bacteria, food bacteria. She said that it is food bacteria that killed my children. How can food bacteria kill a child? Food that I’ve been giving them from one month to nine months—the food didn’t kill them. How is it possible?”
While the Lagos State Ministry of Health and the Primary Health Care Board have yet to issue an official comment regarding the incident or the particular findings of the autopsy, Alozie raised grave concerns that the results would be distorted to protect the government facility.
He described the situation as “government to government” and made an urgent request for assistance.
He said, “Please, if you’re a lawyer, a human rights lawyer, please help me. I don’t have a lawyer, and you know, government issue. If you don’t have anybody, you will not get a better result,” he cried out, citing a lack of financial resources to fight the case alone.
“Although the autopsy has been conducted already, I’m scared. The reason I’m scared is that I don’t know if this government will give me the actual justice because, you know, this is government-to-government. The primary health center is for the government, and the people who are even running the case for me are government people.
“If I don’t have finance, I have people,” he added. “People should help me. I need justice for these children. I have buried them, but I know that their spirit is still not at peace, because they died untimely deaths.”
