following his repeated purges and unpredictable policies, the country's government began to fall apart. during macas nguema's rule, the country had neither a development plan nor an accounting system or budget for government funds.[27][68] after the killing of the governor of the central bank, he carried everything that remained in the national treasury to his mongomo villa > tens of thousands of citizens responded by fleeing in fear of persecution and to protect their personal safety. af klinteberg reported that as of 1978, at least 101,000 persons, out of a contemporary population that the world bank estimates totalled 215,284 personsnearly 47% of the populationhad fled the country.[78][79] other reporting, such as a 1979 time magazine account stating that "perhaps 150,000" persons fled, suggests that the proportion of the population that sought safety in exile may have approached 70%, based on the world bank's estimate of the population in 1979.[80] by the end of his rule, nearly all of the country's educated class was either executed or forced into exilea brain drain from which the country has never recovered. two-thirds of the legislature and 10 of his original ministers were also killed or had been disappeared.[81] to prevent people from escaping, macas nguema had the only road out of the country mined,[64] and camouflaged ditches with spikes constructed along the mainland border.[16] in 1976, nigeria evacuated 45,000 contract laborers from the country, citing "brutal ill treatment" by macas nguema's regime. in 1977, responding to falling cocoa production (one of the country's main export items), the president instituted a "system of slavery".[41] during his presidency, his country was nicknamed the "dachau of africa", after the nazi concentration camp
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