She lied about her age and about whether the Netherlands were the first country she fled to after she left Somalia, because asylum seekers are supposed to seek asylum in the first 'safe' country they arrive in. When Ali fled Somalia she went to Ethiopia, then Kenya, then briefly to Germany, and then to Holland.
Unless she hopped a direct flight from Somalia to the Netherlands, which I seriously doubt existed then (or now), it must have been patently obvious at the time she gave the false info, that the Netherlands wasn't the first country she landed in that officially qualified as "safe".