Lagos father seeks justice as nine-month-old twins die 24 hours after immunisation

A grieving father, Samuel Alozie, known as Promise Samuel on TikTok, is seeking justice after alleging that his nine-month-old identical twin sons, Testimony and Timothy, died about 24 hours after receiving injections at the Ajangbadi Primary Health Centre in Ojo Local Government Area of Lagos State.

The tragedy went viral on Wednesday after Alozie posted a video on TikTok showing the remains of his sons in separate body bags. “This is the result of the immunisation… they killed my twin boys with injections,” the caption partly read.

Speaking in a follow-up video on Thursday, Alozie, using the TikTok handle promise.samuel099, detailed the events leading up to the tragedy.

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He stated that he took the boys for routine immunisation on the morning of December 24, 2025.

According to the father, the twins became extremely weak immediately after the injections and were unable to eat or play. Despite administering paracetamol as advised by the nurse and bathing them to calm a rising temperature, the twins reportedly died on the morning of Christmas Day, 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 the drug weakened two of them to the extent they can’t talk, they can’t eat, they can’t play as usual, like they can’t disturb as they used to do.”

Alozie raised allegations against the health centre staff, claiming that the twins may have been given expired or fake vaccines or an overdose.

He said, “Government have killed my children. The Nigerian government… My twins, my nine-month-old children; they have killed them with their fake injection and fake vaccine.

“Before you go for immunisation, try to know what they are giving to your child, because I guess maybe this is an overdose, or it is fake drugs. Because you can’t tell me that my child who are not sick, strong and sound, and then going to immunisation and coming back, they are dead.

“Since when I born my pikin, the highest sickness so far is maybe they get fever or something that maybe I’ll just give them paracetamol, and everything will calm down. My children are strong like me.

“I’m just confused. How can I lose two children, identical twins that I have suffered so much for? Just nine months, they are not sick, just because I decided to fulfil the righteousness of taking them to immunisation, so it will not be that, ah, your children, you didn’t immunise them? You didn’t give them proper health.

“On my own, I decided that I would take them to that place, not that they are sick, because from the first day I gave birth to them, I’ve been taking them to immunisation.”

He noted that the nurse on duty that day was not the usual official who attended to them. He further alleged that the nurse administered deworming tablets to the nine-month-old infants without his consent.

“The funny part of this is that the woman that have been giving us injections is not the woman who gave us the injection that day. Another face,” he said.

“The nurse is even saying that the injection she gave them is what the government prescribed for her to give. What about the tablet drug? You said it’s a worm medicine that you gave my children.

“You gave them worm medicine, and you didn’t ask me, and you didn’t even tell me that you are giving them worm medicine to deworm them. Did I tell you that my children are having worm problem? Or did I tell you that I wanted you to give them worm medicine? No, Then you explained to the government that you wanted to give them because you are helping me. Helping me to give my two nine-month-old children worm medicine?”

The distressed father also rejected preliminary claims from the health centre attributing the deaths to “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 release an official statement regarding the incident or the specific findings of the autopsy, Alozie expressed deep fears that the results might be manipulated to protect the government facility.

Describing the situation as “government to government,” he issued a desperate plea for help.

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, but 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 the government, and the people who are even running the case for me are government people.

“I know that they will manipulate this result. They are using fake drugs and fake vaccines. They will manipulate it to their own favour, but God will punish any doctor, any nurse who will manipulate this result. The souls of my children will curse that person.”

“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, and their death was caused by the government. I don’t have anybody except God, but I know that God will bring justice to them.”