Dare Babalola
The Lagos State Government has ordered an autopsy for nine-month-old twins, Testimony and Timothy Alozie, who died 24 hours after receiving routine immunisation at a primary healthcare centre.
The incident became public when Samuel Alozie, also known as Promise Samuel on TikTok, shared videos showing his sons’ bodies in body bags, detailing how they died shortly after vaccination.
In a follow-up video, Alozie said he took the twins for immunisation on December 24, 2025, and they became severely weak right after 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.
Alozie said a nurse at the health centre advised him to give the twins paracetamol if their temperature rose. He and his wife followed the advice and bathed them in cold water, but their condition didn’t 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. 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, they couldn’t play as usual,” he said.
The grieving father said the twins were healthy before the immunisation and he’d always taken them for their routine vaccines since 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 fulfil the righteousness of taking them for immunisation,” he said.
Reacting, the Permanent Secretary of the Lagos State Primary Health Care Board, Dr. Ibrahim Mustafa, told Punch on Saturday that 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 said the twins’ bodies were taken to Lagos State University Teaching Hospital morgue and the government would release its findings publicly.
“Once the postmortem findings are out, we will communicate appropriately,” he said.
Alozie, however, 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.
