User blog comment:XdrakeYONKO/SABO IS NUMBER 2/@comment-5391752-20140409115816

Good suggestion, it's plausible that Kuma was the previous General Officer, seeing as he knew so much. It was quite the right time for a leadership transition too.

Though I think we'll see Kuma again. Since Vegapunk took him apart limb by limb, presumable he could hogback him together.