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The Lagos State Government has ordered a postmortem examination on nine-month-old identical twins, Testimony and Timothy Alozie, who reportedly died within 24 hours of receiving routine immunisation at the Ajangbadi Primary Health Centre in Ojo Local Government Area.
The tragic incident came to public attention after the twins’ father, Samuel Alozie—popularly known as Promise Samuel on TikTok—shared viral videos showing the bodies of his sons in separate body bags while narrating the circumstances of their deaths.
Speaking in a follow-up viral video on Thursday, Alozie said he took the twins for routine immunisation on the morning of December 24, 2025. The infants became extremely weak immediately after receiving the injections.
“They could not eat, they could not play, they could not even disturb as they used to. They were just weak,” he said.
According to Alozie, a nurse at the health centre advised that the children be given paracetamol if their temperature rose. He and his wife administered the drug and bathed the children in cold water, but their condition did not improve.
“It happened that the immunisation was conducted on the 24th of December in the morning, and on the morning of 25th December, they died. 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, they couldn’t play as usual,” he said.
The distraught father said the twins were healthy before the immunisation and that he had always ensured they received their routine vaccines from birth. He raised concerns about the health centre, suggesting the twins may have been given expired or fake vaccines or an overdose.
“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 fulfil the righteousness of taking them for immunisation,” he said.
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Alozie noted that the nurse who administered the injections was not the regular staff member who usually attended to his children. He also claimed the nurse gave the twins deworming tablets without his consent.
He rejected preliminary explanations from the health centre 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.
In a phone interview with the Permanent Secretary of the Lagos State Primary Health Care Board, Dr. Ibrahim Mustafa, said investigations were ongoing and that a postmortem had been ordered.
“We sympathise 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 added 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 results were available.
Alozie expressed fears that the outcome of the investigation might be manipulated to shield the government-owned health facility, describing the situation 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. “If I don’t have finance, I have people. People should help me. I have buried them, but I know that their spirit is still not at peace, because they died untimely deaths, and their death was caused by the government.”
The Lagos State Ministry of Health and the Primary Health Care Board have yet to release official statements or autopsy findings regarding the case.
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