Lawmakers in Kwara State have urged President Muhammadu Buhari, to make the nation's Border Community Development Agency functional in order to checkmate security lapses around border areas.

They also asked the Federal Government to ensure the provision of basic infrastructure in the affected communities to give them a sense of belonging. This formed part of the resolutions of the Kwara State House of Assembly after considering a report of the House Committee on Local Government and Chieftaincy Affairs on the motion titled "Provision of adequate infrastructure to Border Communities along Nigeria-Benin Republic in Baruteen Local Government Area of the State" raised by a member representing Ilesha/ Gwanara constituency Alhaji Umar Mohammed Gunu.

Speaker of the Assembly, Dr. Ali Ahmad while reading the resolutions, of the House on the report said border communities in the state had not felt the impact of the agency as most of the affected communities lacked access roads and other basic infrastructure.

He said this was unlike their counterparts in Republic of Benin that were provided with schools, markets, dispensary and place of worship by the government of that country.

The House equally urged the State Revenue Service to provide revenue generating facilities in Chikanda and other routes, so as to use such proceeds to provide necessary infrastructure to improve the well being of border communities in the state.

The legislature also directed the State Ministry of Health to immediately deploy medical personnel and provide necessary facilities to the Chikanda cottage hospital for the use of immediate communities in the area.

It equally directed Baruten Local Government Council to as a matter of necessity include projects for development of border communities especially schools and boreholes in its annual budget to reduce the hardship confronting the border line communities in the local government area.