PM says take it up personally after questions raised on David Ashton-Lewis using the term Fruit Salad

Those offended by the comments can take it up.

Those are the comments from Prime Minister, Sitiveni Rabuka after serious concerns raised by some people regarding the comments of the Commissioner of Inquiry, David Ashton-Lewis that have emerged from the transcripts of the Commission of Inquiry into the appointment of Barbara Malimali as FICAC Commissioner.

Former media personality who is now based in the UK, Charlie Charters has said on his social media post that Ashton-Lewis used the term Fruit Salad eleven times to gossip about the racial purity of three different lawyers appearing in front of his Commission of Inquiry.

He says Fruit Salad is shorthand, a crude racial characterisation, someone whose ancestry is a blend of ethnicities - hence fruit salad.

When we asked Rabuka, he says people can take it up.