The government has been challenged to employ more teachers to solve shortage in schools as one way of improving education standards in the country.
Speaking at Hema Secondary School in Nyaribari Masaba Sub-county, former Law Society of Kenya chairman Okong'o Omogeni, noted that shortage of teachers has always been a challenge to most of schools performing dismally.
He was the chief guest in the prize giving ceremony to the school that posted impressive performance in last year's national examinations.
He said it is not realistic for a performing school with high population like Hema to have only 16 teachers, which is against teacher, student ratio of 1:40 in that respect.
"Our government must confront the issue of teacher shortage as one way of improving education standards in our region and country in general. How can a school like Hema have only 16 Teachers Service Commission employed teachers?" he questioned.
Hema secondary registered a mean grade of 9.2 points whereby all 59 students got a minimum University entry of C+ and above.