The Lagos State Government has ordered a postmortem on nine-month-old identical twins, Testimony and Timothy Alozie, who reportedly passed away about 24 hours after receiving routine immunisations at a primary health care centre in the state.

The tragedy came to public attention after the twins’ father, Samuel Alozie—known on TikTok as Promise Samuel—shared videos showing the bodies of his sons in separate body bags while recounting how they died shortly after the vaccination.

In a follow-up viral video on Thursday, Alozie said he took the twins for routine immunisation on the morning of December 24, 2025. He added that the children became extremely weak immediately after the injections.

“They could not eat, they could not play, they could not even behave as they normally did. They were just weak,” he said.

Alozie explained that a nurse at the health centre advised giving the children paracetamol if their temperature rose. He and his wife administered the medication and also bathed the twins 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 the 25th, they died. After the injection, they were very weak, and I gave them paracetamol as advised by the nurse. My wife bathed them in cold water, but it didn’t help. 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, eat, or play as usual,” he said.

The grieving father emphasized that the twins had been healthy before the immunisation and that he had consistently ensured they received their routine vaccines from birth.

“I’m just confused. How can I lose two children, identical twins, that I’ve cared for so much? They were just nine months old and had never been sick. This happened because I did the right thing and took them for their vaccinations,” he said.

Alozie also noted that the nurse who administered the recent vaccines was not the regular official who usually attended to his children. He rejected preliminary explanations from the health centre suggesting the deaths might have been caused by “food bacteria.”

“The nurse claims it was food bacteria that killed my children. How can food bacteria kill a child? The food I have been giving them from one month to nine months did not harm them,” he said.

The Permanent Secretary of the Lagos State Primary Health Care Board, Dr. Ibrahim Mustafa, said investigations are ongoing and confirmed that a postmortem has been ordered.

“We sympathise with the family and understand their grief. The case is being investigated by the police, and we are also conducting a state-level investigation. We are awaiting the postmortem findings. This vaccine has been given to many children before and after these twins, 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 the government would release its findings publicly.

“Once the postmortem results are available, we will communicate them appropriately,” he said.

Meanwhile, Alozie expressed concern that the investigation could be manipulated to protect the government-owned health facility. He appealed for legal assistance, saying, “Please, if you are a lawyer, a human rights lawyer, help me. I don’t have the means to fight this alone. I need justice for my children.”