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The Upper West Regional Lands Department, has drawn an action plan to fight the general indiscipline that is associated with land acquisition and development in the region. Mr. David Deribaa, Acting Regional Lands Officer, who made this known in Wa, said land agencies in the area, operating under one umbrella would document all customary grants of lands to ensure security of tenure and address the indeterminate customary land boundary issues and unclaimed compensation for lands acquired by government. "We will make sure that every parcel of land in the region has an identified and recognised owner, to eliminate the problem of multiple sales and disputes over compensation," he stressed. Mr. Deribaa was speaking at his maiden meeting with land lords within the Wa Central Customary Lands Secretariat, since he took over the administration of the department. He observed that the issue of land compensation was creating acrimony in Wa and attributed part of the problem to the previous compulsory acquisition of lands by government To address the problem of multiple sale of land, he said in future, nobody would be allowed to sell any plot of land to another person or party without the appropriate title to the piece of land. The land lords asked the Survey Department to give identity tags to all surveyors they could deal with in order to eradicate quacks within the system.