Kabwata Police Station in Lusaka, Zambia briefly turned into a battleground of broken hearts and flying fists, after six furious women, two of them heavily pregnant showed up to visit their shared fiancé, 31-year-old Andrew Kosamu.

The women, unaware of each other’s existence until that chaotic moment, descended on the station hoping to check on their detained lover. What followed was a dramatic showdown straight out of a soap opera. Hair was pulled, insults hurled, and tempers exploded as the women realized they were all victims of the same sweet-talking conman.

Police officers had to temporarily abandon their duties to intervene and separate the enraged women, who had come face-to-face with the painful truth: the man they had each planned to marry was a seasoned swindler who had promised them love and a future only to leave them betrayed and broke.

Kosamu, a man now nicknamed by locals as “Mario Promax,” had built an elaborate web of deception, charming older women from different parts of Lusaka and proposing to each of them. To avoid detection, he lied about his age, claiming he was born in 1991 rather than 1994, and kept his women scattered across areas like Chudleigh, Chelstone, and Chongwe.

The drama at the police station followed his arrest over a bold car scam involving one of his fiancées, Regina Mwanza. Regina had lent Kosamu her BMW out of love and trust, only to discover later that he had forged ownership documents and a fake Zambia Development Agency (ZDA) certificate, before selling the car for K110,000 (approximately KSh 510,000).

While Regina mourned the betrayal and the loss of her vehicle, the other five women were left to deal with their heartbreaks having lost thousands of kwacha in village banking loans they had handed over to Kosamu for a wedding that was never going to happen.

To make matters worse, two of the six women are in their final trimester of pregnancy, now facing single motherhood after being duped into thinking they had found lifelong partners.

Police have confirmed that Kosamu will be charged with forgery, uttering false documents, and theft of a motor vehicle. Authorities have also urged any other victims of his scams to come forward, hinting that this may just be the tip of the iceberg. Reports indicate that Kosamu may have pending cases at other stations across Lusaka.