The Lagos State Government has ordered a postmortem examination for nine-month-old identical twins Testimony and Timothy Alozie, who died 24 hours after receiving routine immunizations at a basic health care center in the state.
The event gained national attention after the twins’ father, Samuel Alozie—also known as Promise Samuel on TikTok—shared footage of his boys’ bodies in separate body bags while describing how they died shortly after the vaccine.
In a follow-up viral video released on Thursday, Alozie stated that he took the twins for standard immunization on the morning of December 24, 2025, and that they got extremely weak soon following the injections.
“They could not eat, they could not play, and they could not even disturb as they used to. They were just weak,” he said.
According to him, a nurse at the health center recommended that the youngsters be given paracetamol if their temperature increased. He stated that he and his wife administered the medicine and bathed the children in cold water, but their condition did not improve.
“It happened that the immunization was conducted on the 24th of December in the morning, and on the morning of the 25th of December, they died. On the 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.
“My wife bathed them in cold water. They died on the 25th. The two of them died at the same time. The drug weakened them to the extent that they couldn’t talk, they couldn’t eat, and they couldn’t play as usual,” he said.
The bereaved father said the twins were healthy before the immunization and that he had always ensured they received their routine vaccines from birth.
“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,” he said.
Alozie also mentioned that the nurse who administered the last injections was not the regular official who usually attended to his children.
He rejected preliminary explanations from the health center that the deaths might have been caused by “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 did not kill them,” he said.
Meanwhile, in a phone chat with Saturday PUNCH, Dr. Ibrahim Mustafa, the Permanent Secretary of the Lagos State Primary Health Care Board, stated that investigations were ongoing and that a postmortem was requested.
“We sympathize with them, and we understand the grief these parents will be going through, but we would like for the right things to be done and the right decisions to be taken. It is being investigated by the police, and we are also doing our investigation as a state, and we are expecting the postmortem findings. This particular vaccine has been given to many children before and after these kids, and nothing like this has been recorded,” he said.
Mustafa also stated that the bodies of the twins were deposited at the Lagos State University Teaching Hospital morgue and that the government would make its findings public.
“Once the postmortem findings are out, we will communicate appropriately,” he said.
However, Alozie voiced concerns that the investigation’s findings could be skewed to protect the government-owned health center, describing the scenario as “government to government.”
“Please, if you are a lawyer, a human rights lawyer, help me. I don’t have money to fight this alone. I need justice for these children,” he pleaded.
