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Sam Nead
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One answer to your question comes from the paper The Weber-Seifert dodecahedral space is non-Haken by Burton, Rubinstein, and Tillmann.

An earlier and "easier" example is the $(1, 2)$-Dehn filling of the figure-eight knot. This manifold is hyperbolic (4.22) and non-Haken (4.41). The references are page numbers in Thurston's lecture notes.

Finally, we can use SnapPy to find presentations of the fundamental groups.

Before filling:

In[1]: M = Manifold("4_1")
In[2]: M.fundamental_group()
Out[2]: 
Generators:
   a,b
Relators:
   abbbaBAAB

After filling:

In[3]: M.dehn_fill((1, 2))
In[4]: M.fundamental_group()
Out[4]: 
Generators:
   a,b
Relators:
   abbbaBAAB
   abAbaBabAbaBAB
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