Dare Babalola
A 30-year-old father, Samuel Alozie, also known as Promise Samuel on TikTok, has alleged that a primary healthcare centre in Lagos State was responsible for the deaths of his nine-month-old twin boys following immunisation.
In a viral video, Alozie alleged that his twins, Testimony and Timothy, were given fake, expired, or inappropriate medication at the healthcare centre, prompting him to seek help from human rights lawyers.
Alozie revealed that he took the twins, Testimony and Timothy, for their routine immunisation at the healthcare centre on December 24, 2025.
He said the boys became severely weak right after the injections, losing their appetite and energy to play.
Despite giving them paracetamol as advised by the nurse and trying to cool them down with baths to ease their rising temperature, the twins tragically passed away on Christmas Day morning, December 25.
He said, “It happened that the immunisation 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 centre, 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, they couldn’t play as usual, like they couldn’t disturb as they used to do.”
He continued, “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.”
The father also alleged the nurse gave the children oral medication without consent, claiming it was “to help” them, and dismissed explanations given by the medical facility blaming food bacteria for the kids’ death.
He said, “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?”
Alozie said an autopsy was done, but he’s skeptical about the results, fearing they might be compromised since the facility is state-owned.
Alozie pleaded to the public, seeking legal support, 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 centre 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.”
The Lagos State Ministry of Health and the Primary Health Care Board have yet to release an official statement regarding the incident or the specific findings of the autopsy.
