Fifteen people have been arrested for invading the land of former Agriculture minister William Omamo in Tinderet constituency.
The more than 700 squatters are demanding to be settled before a multi-billion shilling 50MW solar power project is established. It is being set up by a French company that has leased 500 acres.
The squatters engaged police in running battles for the better part of Saturday and Sunday morning, after they were dispersed in Mberere during a meeting to subdivide part of the farm.
Police lobbed tear-gas and fired in the air to disperse the invaders, who have cultivated a huge chunk of the land.
Anti-riot police officers arrested five from the aborted meeting. Squatters later converged in Soksok, where again police in three Land Cruisers dispersed them.
Tinderet police boss Margaret Kola led the operation of the arrest of the 15.
They are expected to be taken to court on Monday to answer to charges of trespass and malicious damage to property.
Chebonet squatters chairman Hillary Cheruiyot said police used excessive force in dispersing them. He said some of those arrested were apprehended at their homes.
There is an ongoing construction of a perimeter fence to secure the huge panels next to Mberere police station.
Nandi leaders, led by MP Julius Meli and Governor Stephen Sang, had asked the squatters not to engage in illegal activities but to pull resources and buy the farm as it had been put for sale.
The squatters failed to present their grievances before the National Land Commission, when they visited Nandi in mid-2018 when they held sittings in Nandi for historical land injustices submissions.