The Kwara State government has maintained that it will not go back on its stand over the post graduate diploma qualification in education for all teachers by 2017. It said that failure to comply would result to certain penalties on the part of the teachers.

The state Commissioner for Education, Alhaji Musa Ayinla Yeketi made this known while speaking with The Herald Education in his office last week. Yeketi disclosed that the state government needs only teachers who are ready to serve and those who are particularly ready to teach.

He said the action was not to underrate or underestimate any body but to ensure world class standard of education in the state as promised by the state government in its campaign adding that the administration would not relent in providing education for every child in the state. Yeketi also appealed to all teachers in the state to always dress properly in their various school, saying that their dressing sent great signal to their students.

"It is good our teachers in the state dress very well and morally while on duty and when ever they are with their students, and they should know that they would be adressed the way they dress. They are examples to their students, so they should notw inculcate bad dressing habit on our students".

Yeketi expressed shock over the discoveries made at the ongoing teachers biometrics exercise in the state, saying that the discoveries had been forwarded to the council to act on the findings.

He added that teachers who were also not going to their places of works are already facing disciplinary action. Yeketi said with the discovery made so far, the ongoing salary crisis would soon become a thing of the past.

He also revealed that the state government has instructed those that have been collecting multiple salaries to refund the money they received illegal for years or be expelled from service.

Yeketi also noted that the state government would not condone any act of indiscipline on the part of students across the schools in the state even as he reinstated the government's commitment toward providing a world class standard of education in the state

He said even if there has been no any record of cultism in secondary schools, he said the state government would not relent in giving the students sound and moral education and to educate them on the consequence of cultism. He added that the state government would also double its effort in providing good welfare for both the students and teachers adding that security would be provided to any school that did not have adequate security.