ASUU Strike - Should University Funding Come from Parents?

The industrial action embarked upon by the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has entered into its third month and there seems not to be an end to it on sight. The union is holding tenaciously to its demands while the federal government appears to have ignored the issue. Popular reactions are now shifting away from the present strike action towards a permanent solution to the incessant re-occurrence of strikes by the union. Some schools of thought are of the opinion that government involvement in higher education in Nigeria is too high to the detriment of the other levels of education such as primary and post primary, and this is partly responsible for the undue hikes in the cost of private education in the country especially primary and secondary schools. Others stakeholders in he educational sector are of the opinion that funding the Universities should be the exclusive responsibility of the government. If the government claims it does not have the wherewithal to meet ASUU demands now, are there possibilities that these needs(which are recurrent) will consistently be met in the future? If this is not guaranteed to happen, should we then adopt "ASUU STRIKE" as part of university education in Nigeria or are their pragmatic ways and means of resolving these problems permanently? Some have opined that while primary and secondary education may be free to secure every child the right to basic education and indeed I agree absolutely with this opinion, there is no such thing as free tertiary education anywhere in the world and Nigeria cannot be an exemption. Truth is, a good university education is expensive and pretending to make it look otherwise is playing the ostrich and will continue to amount to giving our students substantially substandard education with the implication of churning out half baked graduates. That is the status quo with the resulting effect of employers rating our graduates as unemployable or in other cases grossly under-employed. What is your view -SHOULD NIGERIAN STUDENTS PAY FOR UNIVERSITY EDUCATION IN GOVERNMENT OWNED UNIVERSITIES?