The new Municipal Chief Executive for Lawra in the Upper West Region, Alhaji Adams Muaza is dead.

He died Tuesday morning, Graphic Online has been told.

This is coming barely two weeks after the Lawra Municipality was hit with a tragedy with the drowning of seven students in the Black Volta at Dikpe.

Since his appointment and confirmation in April this year, the new MCE has not been well and was yet to take office fully.