The government has been urged to deploy more teachers in Kuresoi district to improve education standards in the district.
Former Tinet Ward councillor David Sitienei expressed concerns over the large disparity in the ratio of teachers to pupils adding that the district was experiencing a big shortage of teachers since 2008.
Sitieneni said, "Many teachers left the district after the 2007/08 election violence. Those who left have not been replaced six years after skirmishes."
He said the area has qualified teachers who are unemployed adding that some teachers deployed to the area claimed working conditions were unfavourable and secured transfers increasing the shortage.
Sitienei urged the government to consider qualified local teachers from the area during recruitment of teachers. These teachers, he said, will easily cope with conditions ranging from pathetic roads and sanitation.
He alleged that the education standards were decreasing citing Barao primary which has 457 pupils but with only four government teachers.
Sitienei said the free education was not equal to the desires of the tax payers adding that budgetary allocations should reach schools without hitches.
"How do you expect a school such as Kapkoi with nine hundred and six pupils to excel with only seven teachers?" he posed.