Aside the GHȻ 45, 000, the court also stated that his salary for the period he was in prison should be paid to him in full.
Mr Asante was seeking a 7 million compensation package for wrongful sentencing.
The seven member panel also added that viewing the teacher physically, there was nothing which showed that he had gone through any mental torture in prison.
Eric Asante was acquitted and discharged by the Supreme Court in January 2017,after a DNA test carried out on the baby believed to have come about as a result of the supposed defilement, proved that he was not the biological father.
He was initially found guilty in September 5, 2005, and sentenced to 15 years imprisonment with hard labour by the Tamale High Court, for defiling one Rubamatu Mohammed.Mr. Asante, who had always maintained his innocence, filed an appeal at the Court of Appeal on October 6, 2006, but it was dismissed.
He then proceeded to the Supreme Court in 2012, where the court ordered for a DNA test to be conducted on the baby and later discharged and acquitted after serving two-third’s of his jail-term.