It says the damaged 8km (five-mile) stretch near Mandera town had cost a whopping 3.4bn Kenyan shillings ($30m; £22m) to build.

"They have been pulling the wires using lorries and as you can see, it’s only the concrete poles standing," local resident Adan Siad told the Nation.

The paper said its reporter also "witnessed men with a donkey cart uprooting some of the remaining poles".

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Kenya's government had originally promised to build a complex wall to run about 700km along the border.

But the "wall", which was meant to stop al-Shabab Islamist militants from crossing into Kenya, remains incomplete.